How about all the entitlements given to ILLEGALS and the cost of ILLEGAL immigration?? Focusing on SS and Medicare to LEGAL Americans is a sure way to lose an election.
Funding fight? There was no fight; it was complete caving to the DEMS.
Republicans warm to Social Security, Medicare reform as 2024 election nearsLawmakers have long shied away from serious discussions about entitlement reform, but the issue appears to be coming back into focus for Republicans who are wary about the growing national debt.
"I definitely have noticed it," veteran GOP strategist Doug Heye told Fox News Digital of the uptick in GOP-led discussions on the issue. "Republicans have talked about this for a long time, not always with specifics. But what tends to happen is, they talk about it, they get attacked, they fall back."
Congress just ended the fiscal year 2024 government-funding fight with President Biden signing a $1.2 trillion spending package into law last week and averting a partial government shutdown. But the ugly battle, which took six additional months after the end of fiscal year 2023, only accounted for the government’s discretionary spending – which makes up just over a quarter of annual federal funds.
The vast majority of federal funding is classified as mandatory spending, which includes entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known colloquially as "food stamps."..........
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-warm-social-security-medicare-reform-2024-election-nears