The political jockeying over the future of Social Security and Medicare is back again.
Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern and members of the committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, Rep. Bob Good , Rep. Ben Cline , Rep. Eric Burlison and Rep. Michael Cloud , hold a news conference to introduce their FY2025 federal budget proposal at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on March 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. Comprised of conservative Republican members of the House of Representatives, the proposed budget aims to “balances in just seven years, cuts spending by $16.
Donald Trump recently stumbled into the controversy — perhaps unwittingly — when he said, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” The immediate backlash caused him to backtrack as fast as he could and claim it was all a misunderstanding.
It’s not as if Democrats are proposing to do nothing even if their proposed solutions are predictable. Biden hason incomes above $400,000 to bolster Medicare’s finances, which he claims would keep the program fiscally healthy until at least 2050.
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