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In reply to the discussion: Trump administration knows how bad things are for 2020. So they are hiding and delaying bad news. [View all]Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the second-ranking Senate Republican, expressed hope to the New York Times that Trump would be interested in reforming Social Security and Medicare. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) was even more optimistic. Weve brought it up with President Trump, who has talked about it being a second-term project, Barrasso said. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has made no secret of wanting to cut Social Security.
In using deficit fears to target entitlement programs, many Republicans are hoping to use Trump's second term to cut Medicare and Social Security. First, expand deficits through tax cuts, then declare that spending must be slashed. The chief target of these proposed cuts is Social Security, which historians have noted the mainstream Republican party has long sought to diminish, privatize, or both.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/08/23/trumps-second-term-plan-for-social-security-starve-the-beast/#79755ee53794