WASHINGTON (AURN News) — During a White House briefing, Vice President JD Vance faced questions about the administration’s newly created, nearly $1.8 billion so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” taxpayer money that critics are calling a “political slush fund” for Trump allies.
A reporter asked Vance: “People are telling us that they feel financially worse off. Can you justify that amount of taxpayer money? What do you say to Americans who wonder why this fund is getting all this money?”
Vance responded: “I mean, thanks to Donald Trump’s leadership and the working families’ tax cut, we put $40 billion into a rural health care fund in order to stop the closure, or at least prevent some closure, of rural hospitals and rural clinics that have been decimated under the Biden administration.”
What Vance did not mention is that the same rural health fund he pointed to was created through legislation that also cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid — reductions experts warn could cost rural hospitals $137 billion over the next decade.
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