lisa, were around medicare, and social security. we know this bill is about taxes but medicare and social securities play into it. >> this was one of the biggest categories. let's listen. >> high, i'm bethd i live in wisconsin with my son, who is disabled. my question is with all of the discussion about raising the deficit in order to facilitate the tax cuts i would like to know what is going to happen to the programs like social security and medicare and medicaid? i am the sole caregive of lloyd, my son, and he also gets s.s.i., and i get paid through the medicaid waiver to take care of him. if anything happens to those programs, we will lose all of our income. >> all right, so so there's a lot in this question, obviously. let's start with social security. social security would not be affected by this tax bill because it gets income separately. however, medicare could be affected because this bill spending goes above a certain threshold, it could trigger automatic spending cuts in medicare and other mandatory programs. but, judy, republicans say they plan to waive those cuts, to vote later to waive them, so it's a question of having to watch them. one other thing that actually she did