In his State of the Union address, Biden said some — but not all — Republicans want to target programs such as Social Security and Medicare, drawing jeers and catcalls from certain members of the GOP caucus. In Wisconsin on Wednesday, he named names.
Critics and liberals shared the video so much on Twitter that Lee’s name became the No. 1 trending topic on the platform for much of Wednesday. It’s not the first time the video of Lee has resurfaced. During the senator’s reelection campaign last year, independent challenger Evan McMullin shared the video the day before the election.
“We have not talked about cutting Social Security and Medicare,” she said. “Joe Biden has been claiming that we’re going to cut Social Security and Medicare, but we’re not.”But Republican lawmakers have repeatedly made such proposals. The White House noted Wednesday that Lee, Scott and Johnson are not the only Republicans who have voiced support for the cuts.
His comments echo House Republicans’ efforts to get Biden and other Democrats to negotiate spending cuts in any deal to raise the debt ceiling. Democrats have long said they will not negotiate on this and will continue pushing for a clean increase. Republicans raised the debt ceiling without negotiation three times during the Trump administration.
“President Biden clearly struck a nerve last night when he raised congressional Republicans’ long history of working to cut the Medicare and Social Security benefits that Americans pay to earn for their entire working lives,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in an email.As Biden also noted in his remarks Tuesday and Wednesday, some Republicans have publicly pushed back against Johnson and Scott’s efforts to curtail both programs.
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