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Republicans confess attack on Social Security and Medicare is a top priority

2023-10-19
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In the midst of the second vote on Jim Jordan’s nomination to be the next Speaker, one right-wing lawmaker cut through the Republican infighting to remind his fellow GOP members of the common goal they share: cutting programs that millions of Americans rely on to obtain healthcare and afford their day-to-day expenses.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) called on his colleagues to recognize the Ohio Republican’s so-called “courage to get at the real drivers of debt, and we all know what they are. We all know it’s Social Security, we all know it’s Medicare, we all know it’s Medicaid.”

Since Social Security is funded almost entirely through contributions from workers and employers, the program does not contribute to the national deficit and “can never go bankrupt… Even if Congress were to take no action, Social Security could pay 100% of promised benefits for the next 12 years, and more than three-quarters of benefits after that.” Jordan supports plans to cut benefits by raising the retirement age.

An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found in April that 79% of Americans oppose reducing Social Security benefits and 67% oppose raising monthly premiums for Medicare, which Republicans have also proposed.

While Republicans are not yet united around a speaker, “they are united on destroying our earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.”

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