Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday morning crushed House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) dream of making cuts to programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in 2018 now that Congress has passed tax cuts.
McConnell said that the Senate would not be able to pass legislation making changes to those programs without support from Democrats, making it unlikely that his chamber would attempt to pass major legislation addressing those programs.
He made the comments during an interview with Axios’ Mike Allen, who asked McConnell where infrastructure and “entitlement reform” fall on his 2018 to-do list.
“I think the Democrats are not going to be interested in entitlement reform, so I would not expect to see that on the agenda,” McConnell replied. “And what the Democrats are willing to do is important because in the Senate, with rare exceptions, like the tax bill, we have to have Democratic involvement.”
He added that it’s more likely the Senate would tackle infrastructure since both parties are interested in such legislation.
Should I take these as words of reason, or a repug ploy or deception??
“Maybe they will forget or forgive us the ‘Tax Reform’ ?”
There is nothing to be tackled, except for raising the top income withholding for both, you fucking hillbilly.
Well, Mitch is evil but not stupid. He won’t want to take on Medicare or Social Security (old people vote) at least until he sees what happens in the midterms.