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Bucky

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Tue Mar 12, 2024, 09:42 PM Mar 12

GOP Proposals to Cut Social Security, Medicare, & Jack up Rx Drug Prices and Health Care Premiums [View all]

Congressional Republicans’ Many Proposals to Cut Social Security and Medicare, and Increase Prescription Drug Prices and Health Care Premiums

Congressional Republicans’ long record of working to cut Medicare, Social Security:

* Senator Mike Lee said: “One thing that you probably haven’t ever heard from a politician: it will be my objective to phase out Social Security. To pull it up by the roots, and get rid of it.”

* In November, John Thune, the number two Senate Republican in leadership, declared that Social Security and Medicare benefits should be slashed.

* Florida Senator Rick Scott is championing a plan to put Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security on the chopping block every five years, which would put the health and economic security of 63 million Medicare beneficiaries, 69 million Medicaid beneficiaries and 65 million Social Security beneficiaries at risk. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin proposed sunsetting these laws every year...


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