President Trump backtracked Wednesday on his 2016 campaign promise to protect funding for entitlements like Medicare and Social Security, suggesting in an interview with CNBC that he would be open to slashing "at some point" them since they're "the easiest" thing to cut.
Well, unsurprisingly, that didn't sit well with his Democratic opponents, who quickly pounced on the comment.
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