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Dear John,
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Last week, Republicans elected U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) as Speaker of the House, after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted by hardline Republicans. Unfortunately, like his predecessor, he is no friend of Social Security and Medicare.
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In fact, he’s callously called for trillions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. As the former Chair of the powerful Republican Study Committee, then U.S. Representative Johnson put forward one budget proposal after another that shredded America’s social safety net programs by raising the retirement age and Medicare eligibility age, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, means testing benefits, slashing the annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) and more.
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And now, as the new Speaker of the House, he’ll have immense power to prioritize and push forward these dangerous proposals to slash seniors’ programs, under the guise of deficit reduction.
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