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From the Speaker's Press Office:
Top House Republicans are being increasingly open about their plans to hold the debt limit hostage to force through their extreme plans to slash Medicare and Social Security.
In a new interview with Punchbowl News, Minority Leader McCarthy indicated his support for House Republicans' increasingly open plotting to threaten a catastrophic economic meltdown in order to force wildly unpopular cuts to the bedrock of American seniors' financial security.
From Punchbowl News:
From the Speaker's Press Office:
House Republicans are admitting their new Extreme MAGA ‘Commitment to America' Agenda is the gift that keeps on taking! The GOP confirmed this week their plan includes stealing away the lower drug prices for America's seniors on Medicare that Democrats won for them in the Inflation Reduction Act.
From Axios:
From the Speaker's Press Office:
Today, House Republicans attempted to rebrand their plan embraced by 3 out of 4 of their Members to slash seniors' Medicare and Social Security benefits as "save and strengthen" in their new Commitment to America. And who better to show their extreme MAGA Members the true meaning of those words than the original architect of Republicans' "Slash, um, I mean save Medicare" playbook: special House GOP guest former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Remember him? Let's check the archives.
From the Speaker's Press Office:
OOPS. Looks like Leader McCarthy fumbled his agenda rollout by accidentally posting the webpage of House Republicans' "Commitment to America" – and then scrambled to password protect the website again…
…but not before we got screenshots.
From the Speaker's Press Office:
Today, House Republicans began unveiling their extreme MAGA "Commitment to America" agenda – kicking off the roll out by spotlighting their continued commitment to a long-standing GOP agenda obsession: slashing Social Security & Medicare.
From the Speaker's Press Office:
Republicans just can't shut up about their contempt for the sacred guarantee of Social Security. On Wednesday, Sen. Ron Johnson once again showcased the Extreme MAGA Republican contempt for Social Security as we know it — echoing the dangerous plans to dismantle Social Security and Medicare constantly put forward by House and Senate GOPers.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
From the Speaker's Press Office:
When Republicans show you who they are, believe them. Sen. Ron Johnson let slip some truths about the Extreme MAGA Republican Party this week: they want to end Medicare and Social Security as we know it.
From the WaPo:
"In an interview that aired Tuesday on "The Regular Joe Show" podcast, Johnson, who is seeking a third term in the Senate, lamented that the Social Security and Medicare programs automatically grant benefits to those who meet the qualifications — that is, to those who had been paying into the system over their working life.
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Today, 126 of our nation's top economists — including 7 Nobel Laureates, 2 former Treasury Secretaries, 2 former Fed Vice Chairs and 2 former CEA Chairs — sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging swift passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. From the letter:
"This historic legislation makes crucial investments in energy, health care, and in shoring up the nation's tax system. These investments will fight inflation and lower costs for American families while setting the stage for strong, stable, and broadly-shared long-term economic growth."
From the Speaker's Press Office:
Last week, the House passed government funding legislation that makes transformative investments to help working families with the cost of living, create American jobs, fund local infrastructure projects and support the most vulnerable among us. 81 percent of House Republicans – 171 out of 210 – voted NO on the domestic portion of the omnibus but several of these GOP Members are now celebrating critical funding for local projects in their districts despite voting against them…
Here's the latest edition of House GOP Voting No, Taking the Dough:
From the Speaker's Press Office:
This week, the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released a new state-by-state analysis of the Republican tax proposal to raise taxes on – in GOP Senator Rick Scott's own words – "over half of Americans." And while Democrats cut taxes for working families in the American Rescue Plan signed into law one year ago this week, this new analysis found that the GOP plan "would increase taxes by more than $1,000 on average for the poorest 40 percent of Americans."