After President Biden pummeled Republicans on Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address, Republican leaders urged him to stop telling Americans that the GOP wants to slash those retirement programs.
, mirroring a controversial idea by former Speaker Paul Ryan last decade, which became a flashpoint in the 2012 election.
The political fight means Washington is delaying a reckoning about how to resolve the long-term finances of the programs. Trustees'say Medicare’s trust fund is fully solvent through 2028 and Social Security is solvent through 2035 . Biden has endorsed raising the payroll tax cap on upper earners to expand Social Security payments. He sought to expand Medicare benefits for dental, vision and hearing services, but that effort was blocked by a few centrists, mainly Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.“I have no idea what his motivation was but I’m sick of his lies,” Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, who looked puzzled in the House chamber as Biden launched his attack on Republicans in his State of the Union speech.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in an email that protecting those programs “is core to President Biden’s top priority” and made it clear he won’t stop calling out plans to scale them back.
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