In 2012, the House budget ordered six committees to produce policy changes that would save $261 billion over 10 years to avert automatic spending cuts at the Pentagon. The results would have pushed 1.8 million people off food stamps and cost 280,000 children their school lunch subsidies and 300,000 children their health insurance coverage.
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#house #gop #politics #budget #aca #affordable care act #congress #seniors #retirement #retirement crisis #p2 #social security #medicare #obamacare![Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
““Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky
“We are in a crisis right now. A...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/93d9258801da499ce7712598d0be22b4/tumblr_njo11hjqsI1qd3gmvo1_1280.jpg)
Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
“Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky“We are in a crisis right now. A retirement crisis. Not a Social Security crisis.” - Rep. Jan Schakowsky
“Stop manufacturing a crisis with the Social Security disability trust fund.”
- Senator Bernie Sanders“This week anyone earning a million dollars a year will have paid 100% of their payroll taxes for 2015.”
- Max Richtman
Congress is targeting the health and financial well-being of America’s seniors by making yet another attempt to privatize Medicare. Today the House Budget Committee is marking up the GOP’s FY 2018 budget resolution, which includes Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Medicare premium support” scheme – an innocuous name for turning time-tested senior health care coverage into “Coupon-Care.”
via Entitled to Know.
Between the House and Senate budgets, seniors’ earned benefits are at risk of cuts.
However, some conservatives in Congress insist that relief for programs like the Older Americans Act be paid for by cutting Medicare and Medicaid. This budgetary sleight-of-hand could trade partial relief for some seniors’ programs by cutting other essential health security programs like Medicare and Medicaid, thus further eroding the tenuous economic situation many older Americans face.
Max Richtman via Huffington Post.
With the GOP House in chaos, it is being whispered on the Hill that Rep.
Paul Ryan is being asked to put his hat in the ring for Speaker of the
House.
What do you think of Rep. Paul Ryan becoming Speaker of the House?
Read more on the Ryan Budget by clicking here or the graphic above.
The GOP Budget – What would it do? Do you support it?
Before they leave for recess in December, Congress faces bill approval deadlines to avoid a government shutdown, a default, and to extend transportation funding and certain tax breaks. As part of the annual appropriations process, a deal will be sought to mitigate the full return of the “sequester” – automatic across-the-board limitations on defense and non-defense discretionary spending.
via Entitled to Know.
![So we can afford trillions in tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations, but we have to slash programs for seniors, the disabled, and the poor?That’s exactly what the House GOP 2019 budget proposal calls for.[source]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b8f98e2fee4c16dfeab78f0a76eec8a5/tumblr_pal1wtMEpD1qd3gmvo1_1280.png)
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The House passed its 2018 budget resolution Thursday in a party-line vote that represents a step toward its goal of sending tax-reform legislation to President Trump.
via The Hill.
Democrats slammed the House GOP for targeting Social Security in its new budget resolution unveiled Tuesday, contending that the move is part of an emerging Republican strategy to create a crisis atmosphere and set the stage for dramatic changes in how the program works.
via Talking Points Memo.
Cutting Social Security Disability Threatens Millions of American Families.
Americans Push Back as Threat to Social Security & Medicare Grows.
