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"Republicans - will always protect Medicare and Social Security " > Speaker McCarthy

ouch said:
Here we are, 5 months later and a day after into the 11th hour with the MAGA GOP doing their best to crap all over the debt ceiling only for Speaker McCarthy to promise this.


www.salon.com

McCarthy takes aim at Social Security, Medicare after debt deal

McCarthy intends to announce a bipartisan "commission" to examine ways to cut vital programs.
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After securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for hundreds of thousands of poor adults, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear Wednesday that Republicans are not finished targeting the nation's safety net programs—and signaled a coming effort by the GOP to slash Social Security and Medicare.

In a Fox News appearance ahead of the House's passage of the debt limit legislation, McCarthy, R-Calif., said the measure is just "the first step" of the GOP's broader agenda, which includes further cuts to federal programs and massive tax breaks for the wealthy.
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No one ever accused McCarthy of being the sharpest tool in the shed. It ain't gonna happen, it's strictly him keeping up his end of the deal that handed him the Speaker's gavel.
 
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