Washington Post headline: Obama to drop Social Security REFORMS from latest budget request [View all]

[Douglas Carpenter]

Note how much of the media describes cuts as "REFORMS". Why is everything that hurts working people considered reforms?

President Obama will drop from his latest budget request a plan to use a less-generous measure of inflation when calculating Social Security cost-of-living increases, according to White House officials.

The contentious proposal, which was included in last year's White House budget, was offered in hopes of persuading House Republicans to cut a deal to reduce federal deficits, but such a deal never materialized. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats opposed the plan and urged him to take it off the table.

One official said the offer would remain on the table in the event of new budget talks but that it would not be part of the president’s formal spending blueprint for fiscal 2015.

The official was not authorized to comment by name on the budget plan before its March 4 release and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

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