Debt ceiling woes have led to fierce debate about the future of Social Security and Medicare. But how lawmakers address those programs is up for debate.
However, House Republicans' budget plan calls for cuts to the programs, such as raising the retirement age or changing the way the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is calculated.But other efforts to create commissions to examine the programs' futures may move forward as part of a deal, which has set off vigorous debate ahead of the State of the Union.
, a bipartisan bill that calls for rescue committees to be formed to address each of the country's ailing trust funds. "The White House needs to stop demagoguing this issue and start taking looming insolvency seriously," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement on Monday.
"AARP doesn't support these sorts of commissions to do the job that Congress is there to do," Sweeney said.
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