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Hassett on possible Medicare cuts

As the Senate is examining President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill," White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "when the budget process ends, if they don't raise the budget caps, there's going to be reductions across in the board." While Hassett said he has seen "massive amounts of waste, fraud, abuse in Medicaid," he "not been briefed on Medicare waste fraud and abuse" but if the Senate finds something, then "we would look at it."

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Ex-Librarian of Congress speaks out on her firing by Trump

Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to hold the position of Librarian of Congress, received an email that announced, without explanation, her dismissal. It was one of many recent instances where President Trump has pushed out the leaders of cultural institutions and non-partisan agencies. Now, librarians and academics – the co-called "quiet types" – are speaking out, loudly, in support of Hayden. For the first time since her firing, Hayden speaks publicly with "Sunday Morning" national correspondent Robert Costa about how libraries serve as bastions of democracy, for which the "freedom to read," she says, is essential.

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