Appearing on Fox “News” Channel’s The Faulkner Focus Wednesday with host Harris Faulkner, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) announced that he was launching a “commission” tasked with looking at budget cuts resulting from the Fiscal Responsibility Act fallout that could include Social Security and Medicare, reneging on his earlier statement that cuts to such programs were off the table.
This announcement proves President Joe Biden (D) was 100% correct that the GOP would want to cut Social Security and Medicare if given the chance.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Wednesday he was launching a commission tasked with looking at budget cuts – and he suggested Social Security and Medicare could come under his scalpel.
His pledge came just months after vowing such cuts to mandatory spending programs were off the table.
In February, President Joe Biden spoke before a joint session of Congress, telling Americans the GOP wanted to cut the programs they had paid into their whole lives. "Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years," he said.
"That means those programs will go away if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them. Other Republicans say if we don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, they’ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history."
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And then, on Wednesday, the speaker announced he's starting a commission to look at how to make cuts.
"I was elected to help lead this nation. So the first thing we did, opened the House up. The bills, you now get to see 'em before you ever vote on 'em. And now we're cutting. And you know what? I'm gonna make some people uncomfortable by doing that, but I'm not gonna give up on the American people. And this isn't the end. This doesn't solve all the problems. This is the first step,"McCarthy said.
"I'm gonna announce a commission coming forward from the speaker from bipartisan on both sides of the aisle. We only got to look at eleven percent of the budget to find these cuts. We have to look at the entire budget. The Congress has done this before," the speaker continued.
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"Because the president walled off all the others. The majority driver of, of the budget is, is mandatory spending. It's Medicare, Social Security, and interest on the debt," McCarthy replied.
Speaker McCarthy is a total disgrace to America. Hopefully the American people vote out his party come 2024 and turn the House back Blue, along with keeping the Senate and Presidency in Democratic hands to save Social Security, Medicaid, and your freedoms.