Trump: I Will Defend Medicaid. Also Trump: I Support Bill That Destroys Medicaid.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters in an off-camera briefing on Friday that President Donald Trump remains “committed” to protecting recipients of Medicaid, a program he repeatedly vowed not to cut during his presidential campaign.

In response to Spicer’s comments, some have questioned whether the president actually knows what’s in the healthcare bill that was released by the Senate on Thursday.

In a tweet on Thursday night, Trump wrote that he is “very supportive” of the Senate’s plan, which would, in the words of Slate‘s Jordan Weissmann, “thoroughly demolish Medicaid funding over time.”

As the New York Times reported earlier this month, the House version of Trumpcare, which the president celebrated, proposed “reduc[ing] spending on Medicaid by over $800 billion, the largest single reduction in a social insurance program in our nation’s history.”