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The headline should have been "Medicaid budget increased by $25 billion for 2018." In the attached budget document on page 17, it shows Medicaid at $403 billion for 2018 vs. $378 billion in 2017.

For anyone who can read a balance sheet, (and plenty of journalism majors cannot), the $880 billion "cut" that was plastered all over the news comes from the previous administration's ten-year projections vs. the Trump administration's ten-year projections. But the only actual number is the $25 billion increase. I bet if the American people were told the actual number, it would be tough to protest -- or generate such an exciting headline for the left. The obvious reason for the headline is to push an agenda. One of the main reasons we are broke is because the government not only does not cut much, but a cut in a projected increase is always portrayed as a disaster. The media is a major culprit in pushing this agenda.

Maybe the media could point out that all of Obama’s budgets were dead on arrival and that there were years during the Obama administration when the Democrat-led Senate didn’t pass a budget at all. Sort of like Illinois.

On May 25, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who sits on the intelligence committee, was asked about Obama’s illegal spying, where the Obama Administration was cited for continually violating the law since 2011 and she said she hadn’t been briefed on the subject yet. Yet somehow, Pelosi was able to critique Trump’s budget within a few days of its issuance. My guess is she read as much of the budget as she did the ObamaCare bill before she passed it.

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[read the whole shameful thang here](http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/can_the_media_read_a_cbo_balance_sheet_not_by_their_headlines.html)
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