This is because Congress is bound by the statutory Pay-As-You-Go (“PAYGO”) Act, which requires any spending to be offset by automatic cuts, to avoid deficit spending. The automatic Medicare ...

Under current PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go) budget rules, this would automatically trigger spending cuts across various federal programs-including a 4 percent cut to Medicare funding starting in 2026.

As many Americans were still sleeping Thursday morning, the House of Representatives passed a bill whose text they hadn’t read, Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill ...

Though the GOP bill doesn’t explicitly call for Medicare cuts, it would trigger them under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act. Congress passed Stat PAYGO in 2010 to discourage policymakers from enacting ...

Instinctively, Medicare is seen as even more off-limits ... in accordance with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (Statutory PAYGO). The mechanism ensures a net increase of the deficit ...

The CBO said the GOP’s megabill would lead to $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Two days later, 215 House Republicans voted for it anyway.

If enacted, this deficit increase would trigger mandatory sequestration cuts under PAYGO. Notably, unlike Social Security and low-income programs, Medicare is not exempt from these potential cuts.

The nonpartisan CBO estimates that the Republican budget bill that passed the House by one vote this morning would trigger about $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare. This is because ...

“Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO, or Pay as You Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO ...