Social Security

WH Sounds Alarm After McCarthy Tries To Buy Off Far-Right With Soc Security-Slashing Commission
McCarthy made the promise on Fox News last week, in what appeared to be, at the time, a last-ditch attempt to win hardliner support for the debt-limit deal.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is seemingly trying to get a handful of far-right members of the Freedom Caucus to chill out and stop threatening to redo the speakership election. They’re not likely to successfully depose him, but no one is eager for a redo of the January spectacle as a few loud members seek to reassert their authority. And, so, in what is seemingly a half-hearted effort to throw them a bone, McCarthy went on Fox News and promised to create some vague “commission” that’ll review further cuts to next year’s budget.

The speaker then took it a step further. Instead of just promising that “this isn’t the end” and proposing some sort of additional amorphous cuts to quell a hardliner uprising, McCarthy doubled down, raising the possibility that this next step commission could look into gutting Social Security and Medicare. Music, in theory, to the ears of a salivating Freedom Caucus.

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Listen To This: Long Road From 2011

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the White House’s aggression in calling out Republicans’ plans to cut Medicare and Social Security, and how much the political dynamics have changed.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

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