President Donald Trump said hes considering making changes to social safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare toward the end of the year suggesting he is open to the cuts long pushed by conservatives.

Trumps comments to CNBC on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are a change from his past promises to Americans that he would leave those programs untouched, although his administration has pushed to downsize them. Given the enormous popularity of the programs, even hinting at entitlement cuts is typically the third rail of politics, particularly in an election year. Democrats have warned that Trump might do more to decrease the social safety net, and he just confirmed theyre right.

At the right time, we will take a look at that, Trump said after CNBC asked if entitlements would ever be on your plate. He added it would be the easiest of all the things.

Trump appeared to crush Republicans dreams of entitlement cuts during his presidential campaign.

Im not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and Im not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid, Trump told The Daily Signal, a conservative news site affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.