Medicare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversee the country’s largest healthcare programs, providing coverage to more than 150 million Americans.

Trump’s victory endangers vaccines, Medicare and Medicaid recipients, and abortion rights.

During the campaign, Trump said he would seek to terminate any healthcare provider that “participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth” from Medicaid and Medicare.

He has promised to leave Social Security and Medicare - two of the biggest areas of government spending - untouched, which could make cost-cutting difficult.

The biomedical agencies in Kennedy’s sights are just a small sliver of the huge HHS budget, more than 90% of which goes to mandatory programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act programs.