Fearing Backlash, Republicans Backpedal on Social Security and Medicare Cuts

Trump is opportunistically exploiting rifts within the GOP over the prospect of cutting Social Security and Medicare.

In 2022, Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) called for Social Security and Medicare to sunset every five years. The senator’s 12-point plan to “rescue America,” as he grandiosely put it, would subject all major benefits programs, including those upon which tens of millions of seniors rely, to congressional review. The plan also raised the possibility that these bedrock benefits could be drastically...

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