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Insider’s Report: GOP reverts to old playbook on Social Security and Medicare

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy

They said Social Security and Medicare cuts were “off the table” but they lied …

Now that the debt ceiling debate is behind Congress, GOP hardliners are once again free to resume their calls for slashing and privatizing Social Security and Medicare. And Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is eager to give extremists in his party a vehicle to move forward their plans for gutting and radically changing seniors’ programs.

That’s why he just announced his plan to create an “Entitlement Commission,” which is just another ploy to slash seniors’ programs behind closed doors.

Some of the harmful “reforms” a commission could help fast-track through Congress include raising the retirement and Medicare eligibility ages, slashing the Cost-of-Living Adjustment and means testing Social Security.

Fiscal commissions are also meant to insulate lawmakers from the public backlash over such harmful benefit cuts — which makes them even more dangerous.

That’s why Speaker McCarthy has said that his Entitlement Commission proposal has received bipartisan support! And in this politically uncertain time, it could muster the votes it needs to pass in both houses of Congress.

Of course, these sham commissions never discuss raising additional revenue to strengthen the Trust Fund programs — for instance, by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share into Social Security to help strengthen the solvency of that program …

… instead their sole purpose is to slash the social insurance safety.

Please help the National Committee stop Speaker McCarthy’s “Entitlement Commission” by signing our EMERGENCY PETITION TO CONGRESS today.

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