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If you watched the State of the Union event, you watched breathtaking hypocrisy in action.
President Biden's assertion that Republicans plan to cut Social Security and Medicare brought jeers and catcalls from Republicans. They were shocked he had the audacity to make such a patently false claim.
Unfortunately, the only false claims in that House that night were the Republican denials.
As far back as 2010, Senator Lee (R-UT) stated: "It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it...Medicaid and Medicare are of the same sort. They need to be pulled up."
In 2022, Senator Scott (R-FL) proposed that all laws, including Social Security and Medicare, would expire in five years unless reapproved.
Not to be outdone, in November 2022, Senator Thune (R-SD) stated that Social Security and Medicare benefits need to be slashed.
In spite of their denials, many Republicans have discussed withholding their support for raising the debt ceiling to get cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Many Republicans see these programs as nothing more than welfare. They had no problem voting for huge tax cuts for millionaires and corporations under President Trump, cuts that resulted in an increase to the nation's debt of more than $7 billion, the third largest debt increase ever. In fact, they voted to raise the debt ceiling every year under President Trump.
Evidently, raising the debt limit is only a problem when the president is a Democrat.
MARILYN GOLDFARB
Boalsburg
Submitted by Virtual Newsroom