Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is calling President Biden a liar after the White House claimed again that Johnson has sought to end Social Security and Medicare.
then read a placard with a 2022 quote from Johnson, in which the Republican lawmaker called for Social Security and Medicare entitlements to be transitioned from mandatory to discretionary spending, which would require Congress to budget for those programs annually.
President Biden holds a copy of a Sen. Rick Scott proposal during a speech Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Wisconsin.Biden's accusation was in reference to August 2022, when Johnson suggested thatshould no longer exist as federal entitlement programs. Johnson specified that he believed the programs should instead be approved annually as discretionary spending.
"If you qualify for the entitlement, you just get it no matter what the cost," Johnson said at the time."And our problem in this country is that more than 70% of our federal budget, of our federal spending, is all mandatory spending. It's on automatic pilot. It never, you just don't do proper oversight. You don't get in there and fix the programs going bankrupt."
President Biden addresses a joint session of Congress during a State of the Union speech at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 7, 2023.Johnson told Fox Digital in an exclusive statement on Wednesday,"President Biden is lying about me. He lied last night, and he lied again today. I never suggested putting Medicare & Social Security on the chopping block. In fact, it was Joe Biden himself who suggested freezing these programs.
Johnson's comment was in reference to proposed legislation from 1975 while Biden was in the upper chamber of Congress — the
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