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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on January 21, 2023, 03:53:01 am
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Trump to GOP: Don’t touch Medicare or Social Security in debt ceiling fight
Politico, Jan 20, 2023
Former President Donald Trump issued a warning to Republican lawmakers on Friday: Don’t lay a finger on entitlement programs as part of the debt ceiling showdown with the White House.
“Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,” Trump said in a video message.
Republicans have vowed not to raise the federal government’s borrowing capacity unless Biden makes steep cuts to federal spending, potentially impacting social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. Trump’s video is a warning to his fellow party members not to go there. Instead, he suggests targeting foreign aid, cracking down on migration, ending “left wing gender programs from our military,” and “billions being spent on climate extremism.”
"Cut waste, fraud and abuse everywhere that we can find it and there is plenty there’s plenty of it,” Trump says. “But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives. Save Social Security, don’t destroy it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/20/trump-gop-medicare-social-security-debt-ceiling-00078731
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"New policy video from @realDonaldTrump: Cut foreign aid to countries that hate us, cut the billions in Green New Deal extremism, secure the border & stop illegals from using taxpayer funded services, but DON'T CUT Social Security/Medicare for our seniors."
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1616464401757872130
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J.D. Vance
@JDVance1
Trump is 100 percent correct.
2:47 PM · Jan 20, 2023
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Trump should have been trying to convince his boy, Mitch McConnell, to get all this done last month.