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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

Why these cases

Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

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The Medicare Promise Test

Actions
documentedPublic Law 119-21 increased projected deficits and therefore entered the statutory PAYGO process.U.S. Government Publishing OfficeRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedCBO explained that the enacted law created a potential sequestration under statutory PAYGO; OMB, not CBO, would make the ultimate determination.Congressional Budget OfficeRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • Medicare beneficiaries in the avoided PAYGO scenario
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe platform promised to protect Medicare with no cuts and no changes to the retirement age.The American Presidency ProjectRead record · 1 source

Promise kept

On this specific PAYGO theory, the Medicare promise was kept through 2026: a potential automatic reduction was legislatively prevented. The underlying law's deficit effect remains real, but it is not an actual Medicare cut.

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