At his January hearing, he told senators that he still favored raising the Social Security retirement age to 70, and supported means-testing to reduce Medicare spending. [Nominee to head budget office defends support for cuts to Social Security, Medicare]At the hearing, Mulvaney acknowledged that he disagreed with Trump on entitlement reform. “It is my intention to leave Social Security as it is,” Trump said at a March 2016 Republican debate. On Monday, pushed for details by Hewitt, Mulvaney suggested that the replacement of sections of the Affordable Care Act could begin the process of unwinding entitlement spending. So if we get Obamacare replacement right, it might also allow us to fix Medicaid,” Mulvaney said.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 16:04 UTC