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Showing Original Post only (View all)Republicans' plans to slash Social Security and Medicare are becoming clearer: 'We have no choice... [View all]
Jason Lalljee
Wed, January 25, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST
Reports suggest that concessions Rep. Kevin McCarthy made to secure his Speaker seat involved promoting cuts to entitlement programs.Kent Nishimura House Republicans have alluded to cuts they want to make to the federal budget for months.
They're becoming more explicit about those cuts involving Medicare and Social Security funds.
They've indicated that they're willing to leverage raising the debt ceiling to secure cuts. Not raising the ceiling could spell financial disaster.
After being evasive about their plans for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare in the months leading up to midterms, the House GOP has begun to confirm its intention to cut spending on both.
That's according to The Washington Post's Tony Romm, who reported that Republican lawmakers are willing to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in order to get the Biden administration to cave on spending cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Failing to raise the debt ceiling by the summer could cause the US to default on its debt for the first time in history, the consequences of which would be dire.
"We have no choice but to make hard decisions," Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told The Post. "Everybody has to look at everything."
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The White House, and Democratic lawmakers, have criticized the GOP using the debt limit to implement cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
"They claim their plan to use the debt ceiling to trigger global economic chaos is about fiscal responsibility. It's not," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed this month. "The House Republican plan for the debt ceiling is about protecting the wealthy and the well-connected from paying their fair share in taxes nothing more and nothing less."
Link - https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-plans-slash-social-security-103000327.html
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No choice? Why not choose to get rid of tax cuts to the mega wealthy? Sounds like a choice to me. I swear these pricks are heartless, fu^k em all!