{"id":1292996,"date":"2023-10-25T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5d308a52122dcee1e9f6045b67568dd6"},"modified":"2023-10-25T20:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:11:44","slug":"new-house-speaker-had-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/25\/new-house-speaker-had-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"New House Speaker Had Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has previously proposed trillions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and suggested that slashing the programs should be the top priority of Congress. During his tenure as chair of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) between 2019 and 2021, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) helped craft budget resolutions...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/new-house-speaker-had-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/new-house-speaker-had-proposed-trillions-in-cuts-to-social-security-and-medicare\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As chair of the Republican Study Committee, Mike Johnson suggested slashing the programs should be Congress\u2019s priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4402,7504,8621,53714,4,1157,9961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292997,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292996\/revisions\/1292997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}