Fox News host Bill O'Reilly broke down and screamed at his guest Alan
Colmes for identifying spending cuts that President Obama has proposed,
shouting at Colmes, "That's bullshit!" and repeatedly claiming Obama
hasn't proposed specific cuts to replace the across-the-board cuts known
as the sequester. But Colmes was correct: Obama has proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as part of his plan to replace the sequester.
During the March 5 broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor,
O'Reilly repeatedly claimed that Obama "refuses" to endorse specific
spending cuts, shouting at Colmes, "Give me one damn program he said
he'd cut!" even as Colmes highlighted Medicare and Medicaid as two
programs Obama has proposed cutting:
Colmes is correct: Obama has proposed $400
billion in cuts to federal health spending, which includes a $140
billion reduction in "payments to drug companies" and a $25 billion
reduction for Medicaid and affiliated programs:
Conservative media have repeatedly ignored Obama's proposal of specific cuts and revenues to replace the sequester.
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