JULY 28, 2020: GOP slips an attack on Social Security into its coronavirus relief bill.
The GOP’s HEALS Act would fast-track Social Security and Medicare CUTS … using secret, closed-door panels to dramatically undo these earned benefits.
May 13, 2020: Trump campaigned in 2016 that he would never cut soc.sec. and he would make health care universal. But even before he became president, his aides assured anyone who would listen that he didn’t really mean it. …
Many retirees claim Social Security retirement benefits at age 62, the earliest that they can – not because they lack the patience to wait a few years to receive a larger check, but because they can’t find work and they have no financial choice.
Aug 26, 2019: Republicans Are Pushing Myths About Social Security – To Justify Their Demands For Benefit Cuts
“The hard truth of the matter is that Republicans want to cut Social Security, and doing nothing [to improve it] achieves their goal.”
The GOP’s debt concerns are pure fraud. The full cost of the law is now estimated at $1.9 trillion by the Congressional Budget Office – above the legal 1.5 limit. and it actually encourages offshoring of American jobs. … The Tax Act is a Christmas tree of special-interest tax breaks for the super-rich. The only thing more corrupt than the substance was the way it was enacted.
Dec 20, 2017: Top Republicans are already talking about cutting Medicare and Social Security next
for 2018: a push to enact sweeping budget cuts on programs the poorest Americans depend on.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other top Republican leaders, fresh off a tax bill that is estimated to add at least $1.8 trillion to the national debt, are already sounding the alarm about an out-of-control deficit problem. Their targets for closing the gap include Social Security, Medicare, and food stamps.
Give trillions to the rich, [that you don’t have] then take trillions from the poor to pay for it.
Steal from the poor to give to the rich!
May 4th, 2017: GOP Votes to Gut Medicaid, Weaken Medicare & Put Seniors’ healthcare at Risk … meaning millions of older Americans will lose coverage altogether.
The bill cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid by converting it into a block grant program or imposing per capita caps, which will make it harder for impoverished seniors to access long term skilled nursing care and community or home care. Overall, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 14 million people will be kicked off Medicaid in the next 10 years if this bill becomes law.
… President Franklin Roosevelt accused opponents of failing to disclose to working Americans that Social Security “is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omission is deceit.”
July 28, 2016: The Republican Party platform would cut and privatize Social Security and Medicare benefits. Health, financial and retirement security would be at serious risk for tens of millions of Americans – far higher costs and far less choice of doctors and hospitals.