Social Security Works said that the new House speaker's 'NUMBER ONE priority is to cut our earned benefits behind closed doors.'
When Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives elected Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson as speaker last week, critics quickly sounded the alarm about his previous calls to cut trillions of dollars from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—and the GOP leader triggered a fresh wave of fears on Thursday with related comments to a Capitol Hill journalist.
'As Republican lawmakers have continued to pursue the idea, others have embraced the 'death panel' description. After Johnson's mention of the commission in his speech last week, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote:On the whole, Johnson's approach to social safety net programs comes right out of the GOP library of lies about the programs' finances and their effect on the federal budget.
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