Gutting Medicaid? Weakening Medicare? Taking away health coverage from 24 million Americans? Senator Sanders sums up the Trump agenda like nobody can.
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What Governor Christie is saying is just the continuation of the war being waged by the Republican Party against the elderly, against the children, against the sick and against the poor, in order to benefit millionaires and billionaires. It is an outrage.
Senator Bernie Sanders via Talking Points Memo.
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When asked about America’s soaring debt and deficits, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lamented “It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” and he blames Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Rubbish. It’s not social spending that’s causing the federal deficit to soar. It’s Republican tax cuts, especially on corporations and the wealthy.
Look at the evidence. Of all 35 advanced economies, America’s spending on social programs like Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid is among the lowest, as you can see.
Also, Americans pay into Social Security and Medicare throughout their entire working lives.
via Common Dreams.
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Exploding the Budget Deficit Will Lead to Middle-Class Benefit Cuts.
The tax law would leave Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security vulnerable to benefit cuts because of its dramatic $1.5 trillion increase at a minimum in the public debt – an increase that will have to be offset in the future.
Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
As House Speaker Paul Ryan says “We’re going to have to get… at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.”
Don’t let them get away with it.
Social Security and Medicare are critical safety-nets for working and middle-class families.
via Alternet.
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We have been keeping track of lawmakers comments on wanting to target earned benefits and health care in 2018.
You can view this project by clicking here.
The Republican tax plan is part of a broader agenda that aims to pay for tax cuts by cutting investments in low and middle income families, including Medicaid, education, housing and nutrition assistance. Trump and the Republicans are likely to finance their tax cuts with higher deficits. But as we have seen repeatedly in the past, they will then use deficits created by tax cuts to justify slashing investments in children and families.
Medicaid, which covers 34 million children, including nearly half of all children with special health-care needs, may be the most vulnerable to cuts given that Trump and the Republicans have made their intention to cut health care to pay for millionaire tax cuts abundantly clear in their efforts to repeal ObamaCare. The White House and House budgets also cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves more than 20 million families with children, by more than one-fifth and gut investments like K-12 education, affordable housing and public health. These investments are critical for improving the lives of children and their long-term prospects into adulthood.
via The Hill.
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GOP Tax Cuts Could Cost Seniors in the Long Run.
- Republicans have already called for deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and would no doubt come after those programs looking for massive savings. Seniors’ earned benefits could be used as piggy banks to pay for reckless tax cuts that largely benefit the wealthy.
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 the Older Americans Act (OAA) was reauthorized for three years – an important bipartisan accomplishment. Enacted in July 1965 along with Medicare and Medicaid, the law is a key piece of policy that empowers the Administration for Community Living (ACL) to fund programs across the country that are dedicated to helping seniors stay in their communities.
via Altarum.
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Republicans have removed all doubt: When it comes to the federal deficit, the problem is Medicare and Social Security — not their own tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
Fresh off the news that the deficit is increasing under President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Bloomberg News that Congress should target Social Security and Medicare for cuts to address the growing federal debt.
The federal deficit grew by nearly $800 billion over the first fiscal year of Trump’s presidency, during which the Republican Congress passed a tax cut targeted mostly to corporations and the wealthy, which is projected to add more than $1 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years.
The White House and GOP leaders promised that despite all projections to the contrary, the tax cuts would pay for themselves. That hasn’t materialized so far.
via Vox.
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Social Security is self-funded and does not contribute to the debt.
In fact, tax expenditures – especially the Trump/GOP tax cuts – are the number one drivers of the debt, not Social Security or Medicare.
We roundly reject Trump’s 2019 budget. After signing off on tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations, the president proposes to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance – and myriad other programs that help older Americans.
Read more from our response by clicking here.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Wednesday called on President-elect Donald Trump to announce he would veto any legislation to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, or admit that he “lied” to the American people.
via The Hill.
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- Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Compromises Medicare, Costs Seniors.
- “Since the law’s enactment more than 11 million seniors and people with
disabilities have received savings and discounts in the Part D donut
hole of over $23.5 billion on prescription drugs, an average of $2,127
per beneficiary. In 2015 alone, an estimated 39.2 million people with
Medicare took advantage of at least one preventive service with no
copays or deductibles.”
‘Number one, says Mr. Trump, is no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,’ the self-described democratic socialist said. 'That is what he said. And pay attention to see what he now does. The question that will be resolved, pretty quickly, is whether or not everything he was saying to the working families of this country was hypocrisy, was dishonest, or whether he was deceiving. And we will find that out soon enough.’
via Observer.
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- 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. - Max Richtman
Investment in home and community-based care is popular and must be included in #infrastructure. Now it’s up to Congress to get it done. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/elder-care-congress.html #HCBS @nytimes