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“Are there any plans for revamping Social Security, SSI, and disability? There are so many people on these programs, and it doesn’t cover everyday living expenses,” she said. Reed is on Social Security; two of her four adult children are also on welfare. She says a lot of people around her are too. Except it’s getting harder and harder to make ends meet.

“People think that it’s so easy to get on these programs and you get this big fat check. No. It doesn’t work that way,” Reed said, unknowingly unraveling some of the main arguments that conservatives — and Meadows — have made against a bloated welfare system for decades.

Meadows only reiterated the president’s promise to leave Medicare and Social Security untouched, before launching into a mild tirade about Social Security’s lack of accountability.

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Less than a week later, a rift seems to be opening between the President and the Speaker on this issue. President Trump may have finally realized that the only way to get a real healthcare fix through Congress is to work with Democrats and stop coddling right-wingers in the House. He even fired off a tweet this morning aimed squarely at the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, which helped defeat the Republican plan…

via Entitled to Know.

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I think any budget that we pass out of the House must include entitlement reform

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. 

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New Poll Shows Majorities Do Not Support GOP Proposals for Social Security and Medicare.

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Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus said Tuesday entitlement reform should be included in the next budget that passes the House, despite President Trump’s campaign promise that he would leave Social Security and Medicare alone.

via The Hill.

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• New Poll Shows Majorities Do Not Support GOP Proposals for Social Security and Medicare.
• In the poll of likely voters, 79% favor increasing Social Security benefits — and funding that increase by having wealthy Americans pay the same rate into Social Security as everyone else.   Seventy-seven percent oppose raising the Social Security retirement age to 69, and a whopping 93% favor allowing Medicare to negotiate to bring down the price of prescription drugs.
  

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The House Freedom Caucus is planning to draft a plan overhauling Social Security and Medicare within the first 30 days of returning to Washington next year, the group’s chairman said Thursday.

via Wall Street Journal.

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• In The Fight To Save Retirement Security For The Working Class.
• The movement in Washington to gut our most crucial social insurance programs - not only Social Security and Medicare, but Medicaid, too - amounts to nothing less than a war on the working class:  people at all levels of income and employment who are counting on retirement income and health security.
  

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This Document Reveals Why The House Of Representatives Is In Complete Chaos

How did we get to this point? One document, produced by the House Freedom Caucus, holds all the answers.

What the Freedom Caucus actually wants

Yesterday, Politico published the House Freedom Caucus “questionnaire” which it described as pushing for “House rule changes.” The document does do that. But it also does a lot more. It seeks substantive commitments from the next speaker that would effectively send the entire country into a tailspin.

For example, the document seeks a commitment from the next speaker to tie any increase in the debt ceiling to cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

via Think Progress.

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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.