GOP Looks To Flip the Script, Attack Dems for ‘Slashing’ Benefits to Seniors

$2 million ad buy by McCarthy-aligned PAC to target 14 swing congressional districts

While President Joe Biden is accusing Republicans of trying to cut Social Security, the Republican leadership is trying to change the script. They argue in a new ad that it’s Democrats who are cutting benefits for seniors.

American Action Network is an outside spending group affiliated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R. Calif.). The $2 million effort was launched Wednesday. Biden is accused of lying in the ads that will be run in 14 congressional districts. “breaking his promise to 30 million seniors” by proposing cuts in Medicare Advantage’s benefit, a private option to Medicare. The Biden administration in February proposed changes to Medicare Advantage’s payment policies—changes that would cost seniors $540 a year in benefits, according to one study.

Just weeks after Biden’s Feb. 7 State of the Union speech, the ad campaign was launched “some Republicans” You are not enough “Social Security and Medicare to sunset,” This line prompted McCarthy and other members of his party to live-push back. It also shows that Republicans intend to take the fight against benefit cuts to Biden. McCarthy and other Republican leaders have long refuted President Trump’s accusations that they want Medicare and Social Security to be cut. Wednesday’s ad campaign goes one step further. Republicans are now trying to pin benefits cuts on Democrats.

“Joe Biden and his liberal friends in Congress are talking out of both sides of their mouth: promising to protect Medicare while pushing benefit cuts for seniors,” American Action Network President Dan Conston stated in a statement. “Each and every liberal in Congress needs to speak out now and stop Biden’s cuts to Medicare benefits before it’s too late.”

The White House will likely push back on the network’s offensive on benefit cuts. The White House has already denied that its Medicare Advantage proposal is a Medicare Advantage proposal. “cut.” “Any claim that the administration is cutting Medicare is categorically false,” Xavier Becerra is the Health and Human Services secretary said last month.