“I think these should be on the table,” GOP Rep. Greg Lopez said of Social Security and Medicare. A House Republican said Tuesday that he believes there “will be some cuts” to Social Security and Medicare as he entered a conference room at the U.S. Capitol for the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus, a […]
“They’re going to put everything on the table,” one Republican lawmaker said of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Republican lawmakers on Thursday signaled a willingness to target Social Security and other mandatory programs after meeting with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire pair President-elect Donald Trump chose to lead a new commission tasked with slashing federal spending and […]
Sen. John Thune “has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security,” warned one defender of the nation’s most effective anti-poverty program. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota—a former corporate lobbyist and close ally of Sen. Mitch McConnell—as the leader of their conference for the upcoming term, […]
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign proposals “would dramatically worsen Social Security’s finances.” Republican nominee Donald Trump’s claim that he wants to “fight for and protect Social Security” was called into further question Monday after a conservative think tank released an analysis projecting that the former president’s economic proposals […]