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GOP budget goals impossible without Medicare and Medicaid cuts, budget office says

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Republicans want to slash $ 1.5tn in spending to fund Donald Trump's tax cuts and immigration crackdown.

House speaker Mike Johnson insists that the spending purge can be achieved by rooting out waste, fraud and tightening eligibility requirements.

But the Congressional Budget Office says the numbers do not add up, according to the independent in-house agency.

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