“Some people are taking his comments to say he doesn’t want to look at anything on entitlement reform,” said Meadows. “In my conversations with him, that was not the case. It was more about the benefits that seniors have earned currently.”
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“The reform that I’ve looked at is really doing exactly what he says: keeping the benefits for those seniors and those who are about to retire in place and intact, and then modifying entitlements over time and making those reforms as it hits the generations to come,” he said.
via The Hill.
Related Reading:
- Letter to President-Elect Trump.
- During your campaign, voters were reassured to hear your promise to not
cut Social Security and Medicare and that you believe Medicare should be
allowed to negotiate prescription drug prices in the Part D program. That was welcome news. At the same time however, many of your colleagues
in Congress were continuing their years-long crusade to privatize
Medicare and cut Social Security via means-testing of benefits, raising
the retirement age or changing the formula for the annual cost-of-living
adjustment.
