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The White House will not be able to make good on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to give older Americans discount cards to use for medicine, said four officials with knowledge of the deliberations, citing time pressures and still-unfinished planning.
"It would take days to get all the sign-offs we still need, plus the time to print the letters and make the cards," said one official involved in the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity and noted that Inauguration Day is now three business days away. "We ran out of time."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump announced on Sept. 24 that Medicare recipients would receive "incredible" $200 cards in the "coming weeks," blindsiding his own aides and sparking a hasty attempt to rush announcement letters and cards to 39 million Medicare beneficiaries before Election Day. The president latched onto the plan to lower Medicare beneficiaries' drug costs even as his support plunged among older Americans, with polls showing that challenger Joe Biden had opened a double-digit lead among Americans ages 65 and older.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/officials-trumps-promised-dollar200-drug-discount-cards-wont-happen/ar-BB1cJjPp?li=BBnb7Kz
Heckuva job Trumpy.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)dalton99a
(81,450 posts)bdtrppr6
(796 posts)like he has done anything positive or selflessly in 4 fucking years. i'm sure those insurance cards are a real high priority for him right now. he just cares soooooo much about anyone other than himself. why even bring it up other than to fake point out that the admin really wanted this but, gosh, time ran out! sorry!
one of the changes that needs to be forced is our mass media. just terrible.
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)Never got that and this is no surprise!
FSogol
(45,473 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,919 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)captain queeg
(10,168 posts)Because he gets things done! Good think I wasnt eating or I would have choked. PS she didnt look like a rich person, that would be the only ones who could truthfully say this.