Tag: GOP attack on social security

Trump’s Budget Director Reveals Plans to Attack Social Security and Medicare

Mick Mulvaney, Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

Americans will not be fooled into allowing Mick Mulvaney to make what he deemed “easy” cuts to earned benefits.

Opponents of Social Security and Medicare are so eager to end these two overwhelmingly important and popular earned benefits that they can’t contain themselves. Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, is the latest to make crystal clear the longstanding plan to destroy both programs.

Speaking at a conference of state legislators hosted by the anti-government American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”), Mulvaney just revealed that he plans first to go after what he sees as more politically achievable cuts. He explained that the next step, presumably after Trump is in his second term, will be for the administration not just to cut these programs but to end them as we know them.

Mulvaney is apparently so eager to go after our earned benefits that he threw the point into a speech to state legislators, even though both Social Security and Medicare are federal programs.

View the complete November 30 article by Nancy J. Altman on the Common Dreams website here.

GOP’s pathetic new pitch to voters: Cut Social Security and Medicare

The following article by Oliver Willis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website April 25, 2018:

Republicans in Congress are pushing plans for their most unpopular ideas, even as the party faces major challenges in upcoming elections.

Congressional Republicans have released an election year proposal targeting massive cuts to government programs that millions of Americans, including the poorest people, have relied upon. Continue reading “GOP’s pathetic new pitch to voters: Cut Social Security and Medicare”

Trump Tells Fellow Republicans He’ll Gut Social Security ‘On The First Day Of His Second Term’

The following article by Nicole James was posted on the TruthExam.com website the first week in January, 2018:

One of President Trump’s hallmark campaign promises was that he would never cut Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security. So, of course, he’s planning on cutting Social Security.

An unnamed congressman met with several reporters on Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s long-term plans. Trump “told a Republican member of Congress that he was willing to go after Social Security and other entitlement programs at the beginning of his second term.”

He purposely said this away from the public, knowing that it would be a very unpopular decision. Continue reading “Trump Tells Fellow Republicans He’ll Gut Social Security ‘On The First Day Of His Second Term’”

Disastrous Republican Tax Plan Is Only the First Step in Long Term Effort to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Exacerbating Inequality

The following article by Steven Rosenfeld was posted on the AlterNet website December 2, 2017:

Great damage is being done, even as the Trump mob is targeted by Robert Mueller.

President Donald Trump walks with House Speaker Paul Ryan, November 2017. Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

The wheels of justice might be turning with the guilty plea by Trump campaign and White House aide Michael Flynn and the reality that the presidents’ team are real targets, but that will not stop the GOP Congress and White House from gutting essential social safety nets.

The GOP tax plan, which passed the Senate 51-49 early Saturday with no Democrats voting yes, now moves to the phase where differences in the House and Senate bills get ironed out. That will prompt fierce lobbying and protests, but a major bill transferring wealth from the middle-class to the best-off Americans will be passed and signed by Trump.

If all the Republicans were doing was lining the pockets of the already rich, that would be bad enough—pick your adjective. But that’s not the endgame. Before the Senate voted, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a past presidential candidate, said the Republicans must make additional cuts to Social Security and Medicare, both federal programs for those over age 65 as well as people with disabilities and parentless children (such as Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan as a youth). Continue reading “Disastrous Republican Tax Plan Is Only the First Step in Long Term Effort to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Exacerbating Inequality”