In an interview yesterday, “MAGA Warrior” and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Buddy Carter called out Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by name as specific programs he’d like to cut. “If we don’t get this non-discretionary spending under control - that is Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare - if we don’t get that under control, all the DOGE in the world is not going to do any good.” 

This latest comment comes as little surprise as Buddy Carter is leading the charge to cut these programs. 

As a member of the committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, Carter is pushing for $880 billion in cuts in the Trump-backed Republican budget plan that would make cuts specifically to Medicaid. Carter even pushed for deeper cuts to the critical program, saying last week on the AJC’s Politically Georgia that he’d “actually like to see more” than the proposed $880 billion in cuts.

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, the plan “could cause as many as 8.6 million people to lose their health insurance over the next decade.” Advocates are concerned that, if the Trump-backed Republican budget passes, it “could have big impacts for Georgia’s rural hospitals that rely on Medicaid for the bulk of their funding and are in danger of closing.” Health policy experts agree that cuts to the health program are inevitable under the plan. 

“Buddy Carter threatening Georgians with massive cuts to their Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is a strange way of asking them for a promotion to the U.S. Senate,” said DPG spox. “Georgians can’t abide these extreme and dangerous policy positions from a self-described ‘MAGA warrior’.”