Hi,
Kevin McCarthy and the GOP have made it clear: Republicans are ready to
make cuts to Medicare and Social Security.^1,2 Now that the GOP has
control of the House, they can use a debt ceiling fight to try to make
cuts to America’s social safety net.
We’ve seen Republicans use this playbook to try and cut Medicare and
Social Security before, but President Biden and Democrats in Congress must
not give in to GOP demands.
[ [link removed] ]Tell President Biden: Demand a clean debt ceiling increase without cuts
to the social safety net!
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Raising the debt limit used to be a formality, now it’s another thing the
GOP has hijacked for its own extreme conservative policy objective.
The debt limit has no effect on federal spending or the amount we need to
borrow, it solely restricts the Treasury Department’s ability to honor our
government’s financial commitments.^3 That means our government would be
unable to pay for the programs and services that Congress has already
approved — defaulting on our debts and potentially causing an economic
crisis.
Republicans hate that Social Security works. It is a model of a simple,
universal, and overwhelmingly popular government program. Our Social
Security system puts the lie to Republican insistence that private
corporations are more efficient than what we can do together.
But the GOP is ready to use the debt ceiling to try to ruin Social
Security. We can’t let them.
[ [link removed] ]President Biden must make it clear: Raising the debt ceiling is the
basic minimum that we expect from Congress. There can be no negotiation
over Medicare and Social Security.
Thanks for taking action,
Tihi and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Bloomberg News, “Entitlement, Spending Cap Plans Linked by GOP to
Debt-Limit Deal,” [ [link removed] ]October 11, 2022.
2. Washington Post, “GOP to use debt limit to force spending cuts,
McCarthy says” [ [link removed] ]October 18, 2022.
3. House Budget Democrats, “Why Congress Needs to Abolish the Debt Limit”
[ [link removed] ]February 11, 2022.
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