This is by way of a follow-up to this post. More detail on the Republicans' plan to take away our Social Security and Medicare:
It is a Republican problem pure and simple. And now he's trying to pin it on the Democrats.
Read the whole article. Via Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo. Read his post, too.
After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem," McConnell said of the deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. McConnell explained to Bloomberg that "it’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future." The deficit has increased 77 percent since McConnell became majority leader in 2015.
It is a Republican problem pure and simple. And now he's trying to pin it on the Democrats.
Read the whole article. Via Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo. Read his post, too.
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