A MAGA House of Representatives would cut retirement benefits.
Targeting Social Security and Medicare.
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Today I’m celebrating two years of being cancer free.
On the very day that Donald Trump was declared the loser and Joe Biden was declared the winner I was rolled into the OR to have a cancerous kidney removed. Since that time I have been checked twice and have a third check-up in a few months.
The sticker price for the surgery was somewhere around $140,000.
With Medicare and my state teacher retirement insurance I paid $500.
With polls showing control of Congress a toss up, what is surprising is how little conversation there has been about what the MAGAs are planning to do to Medicare and Social Security.
And how little the Democrats are doing to plan a course of action to resist the MAGA plans whether they win or lose.
The MAGA members of the House have already announced their plans to use raising the debt limit as hostage to cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
At some point next year, Congress will need to raise the nation’s debt limit to prevent the United States from defaulting on its financial obligations.
However, key House MAGA leaders have recently indicated that they plan to take advantage of the need to increase the federal government’s borrowing cap to force spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare, putting these two programs at risk.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader and the prohibitive favorite to become House speaker if his party gains a majority, indicated in a recent Punchbowl News interview that he would use the debt ceiling to force cuts to critical programs: “You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt. … [Y]ou got to change your current behavior. We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right?”
When asked whether changes to Medicare and Social Security would be part of debt ceiling discussions, McCarthy said he would not “predetermine” anything. In other words, Social Security and Medicare changes are on the table.
If you were waiting to hear what the Democrats are planning to resist Medicare and Social Security cuts, so am I.