They're freaking out because of this:
President Donald Trump said during a CNBC interview with Joe Kernen on Wednesday that he'd be open to cutting funds to such programs in the future.
"At some point they will be. We have tremendous growth. We're going to have tremendous growth. This next year, it'll be toward the end of the year. The growth is going to be incredible. And at the right time, we will take a look at that," said Trump.
"You know, that's actually the easiest thing of all things, if you look. Because it's such a big percentage."
He added that "we're going to look" at cutting Medicare as well.
"We also have assets we've never had. We've never had growth like this, we've never had a consumer that was taking in through different means, over $10,000 a family. We've never had the kind of things we have," he concluded.
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-reacts-trump-saying-hes-open-cuts-medicare-other-entitlement-programs-1483582