Social Security has been called the third rail of American politics: Touch it and you die. And if that is indeed the case, then Donald Trump might want to start picking out a nice casket. Bloomberg is reporting that when Trump met with Paul Ryan before the 2016 election, he told the former House Speaker […]
It’s starting to look like the next coronavirus relief bill is being held hostage over one issue near and dear to the hearts of conservatives in the GOP: A payroll tax cut, which would deny the Social Security Trust Fund of billions in badly-needed dollars at a time when more people are retiring and retirees […]
Shortly after he announced he was running for president in 2015, Donald Trump swore he would never cut Social Security, declaring: “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid. Every other Republican’s going to cut, and even if they wouldn’t, they don’t know […]
While it was established a long time ago that Donald Trump is a complete and utter asshole who only cares about himself and will screw over anyone to get his way, a new plan from the current president is perhaps the lowest he’s sunk so far. Trump is about to cut Social Security benefits to […]
In just three and a half years, Donald Trump has managed to destroy nearly everything that it took decades to build in this country, and now it appears that he has even more dangerous ideas if he happens to win a second term in office. Just recently, the New York Times reported that as a […]
If perhaps you were worried that Republicans, having blown a $1.5 trillion hole in the national debt, would now be looking to cut social safety net programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps — GOP Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (TN) has some good news for you worry warts: She and her colleagues only plan to cut […]
Now that House Speaker Paul Ryan and his GOP minions have managed to pass a giant tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, they’re halfway to realizing Ryan’s Ayn Randian dream of eliminating the social safety net that includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. On CNN Tuesday morning, two political analysts — David Drucker and A.B. […]
Well, that sure didn’t take long, did it? Donald Trump has not even been in office for a month, but Republicans already have their long knives out, and they’re going after Social Security. Thursday, Texas GOP Congressman Sam Johnson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, unveiled a plan that […]