Republicans publicly deny that they want to cut and gut Social Security and Medicare, but now Trump comes along and says the quiet part out loud — ruins their big surprise — and staff and other Republicans are trying to walk it back. But he said what he said. He said he wants to CUT and he did not include any qualifications. He said the part they’re not going to admit, but which they have been planning for years. Lying Republicans later tried to say he meant “cut waste,” but Medicare already has only a 2% expense (overhead) rate compared with 17% for private health care companies. There is no “waste” to cut. He said what he said.
When Joe Biden accurately stated during his 2023 State of the Union address that SOME Republicans wanted to either abolish or “sunset” (allow to expire) Social Security and Medicare, lying Republican hypocrites falsely accused him of lying. Some of them yelled and disrupted the speech.
Biden, who keeps on outsmarting them and had anticipated their dishonesty, was ready for them. The next day he was ready with the receipts.
Biden showed printed proposals from Florida Senator Rick Scott (who was chair of the 2022 senate campaign committee) to “sunset” ALL government programs every five years, and videos of similar proposals from Utah Senator Mike Lee (to specifically abolish Social Security and Medicare) and videos of Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and later proposing to “sunset” ALL government programs EVERY single year, not every five like Rick Scott.
Sure, not all of them support actually abolishing Social Security and Medicare. Some “merely” want to raise the eligibility ages, reduce the benefits, slow sown the cost-of-living adjustment, privatize it, or undermine it in other ways.
And now Trump comes along and proves that what Joe Biden said last year (and what Republicans have been saying for years behind closed doors, and sometimes on tape and in print) was 100% correct.
Republicans publicly deny that they want to cut and gut Social Security and Medicare, but now Trump comes along and says the quiet part out loud — ruins their big surprise — and staff and other Republicans are trying to walk it back. But he said what he said. He said he wants to CUT and he did not include any qualifications. He said the part they’re not going to admit, but which they have been planning for years. Lying Republicans later tried to say he meant “cut waste,” but Medicare already has only a 2% expense (overhead) rate compared with 17% for private health care companies. There is no “waste” to cut. He said what he said.
When Joe Biden accurately stated during his 2023 State of the Union address that SOME Republicans wanted to either abolish or “sunset” (allow to expire) Social Security and Medicare, lying Republican hypocrites falsely accused him of lying. Some of them yelled and disrupted the speech.
Biden, who keeps on outsmarting them and had anticipated their dishonesty, was ready for them. The next day he was ready with the receipts.
Biden showed printed proposals from Florida Senator Rick Scott (who was chair of the 2022 senate campaign committee) to “sunset” ALL government programs every five years, and videos of similar proposals from Utah Senator Mike Lee (to specifically abolish Social Security and Medicare) and videos of Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and later proposing to “sunset” ALL government programs EVERY single year, not every five like Rick Scott.
Sure, not all of them support actually abolishing Social Security and Medicare. Some “merely” want to raise the eligibility ages, reduce the benefits, slow sown the cost-of-living adjustment, privatize it, or undermine it in other ways.
And now Trump comes along and proves that what Joe Biden said last year (and what Republicans have been saying for years behind closed doors, and sometimes on tape and in print) was 100% correct.