Social Security, Medicare are on the rocks - and no leader in either party wants to step up

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Social Security, Medicare are on the rocks - and no leader in either party wants to step up
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., discusses car rental companies pushing electric vehicles on customers, the impact of the green energy agenda on the country's electrical grid, and the student loan bailout 2.0.

However, he said President Biden has made it clear he is not interested in even bipartisan proposals to ensure the sustainability of Social Security. Now, Cassidy stands among the few on Capitol Hill calling for active measures to extend the solvency of core entitlements, specifically Social Security. Democrat-fueled accusations that Republicans wanted to gut Social Security and Medicare during debt limit negotiations were so potent, that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy swore they were off the table at the time.

Entitlement and welfare reform have traditionally been central ideas to conservative fiscal policy. However, economists who spoke with Fox News Digital said the Republican Party was shifting away from those issues to match its major demographic shift around 2016. "Fast forward 20 years, when now they're retiring, and they're collecting Social Security, and they're on the Medicare program," he said. "And now all of the sudden, if you go to these folks and say, ‘Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable, and we need to reform them’…their initial comment is, ‘Well, wait a minute.

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