{"id":1840119,"date":"2023-02-08T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840119"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:26:49","slug":"joe-biden-tried-multiple-times-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-tried-multiple-times-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Tried Multiple Times To Cut Medicare And Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-tried-multiple-times-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840119&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Many of his positions on spending and deficits that President Joe Biden attacked in his speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/02\/07\/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery\/\">Message from the State of the Union<\/a> He once believed. That contrast demonstrates one of the prime reasons Washington will not get federal spending under control\u2014opportunistic political charlatans like the current occupant of the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The president attacked lawmakers who supported his agenda \u201cwant Medicare and Social Security to sunset,\u201d He should have used the perpendicular pronoun to begin. In July 1975, Senator Biden proposed the idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/624652418\/Joe-Biden-s-bill-to-cut-Social-Security-and-Medicare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Legislation <\/a>To terminate \u201call provisions of law in effect on the effective date of this Act which authorize new budget authority for a period of more than four fiscal years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s supporters may try to parse that language by claiming that terminating the authorizations for Medicare, Social Security, or the military would not necessarily prevent federal dollars from flowing to those programs. But such claims stand at odds with Biden\u2019s own comments regarding his bill. Biden said that the bill \u201crequires every program\u201d\u2014including Medicare and Social Security\u2014\u201cto be looked at freshly at least once every four years. The examination is not just of the increased cost of the program, but of the worthiness of the entire program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the same claim when he claimed that \u201cif anyone tries to cut Social Security [and Medicare], I will stop them,\u201d He left out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/624652424\/Biden-History-on-Medicare-and-SS-Long-Version\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His long-standing support of proposals<\/a> These programs will be cut. Biden and Sens. Chuck Grassley (Republican-Iowa) and Nancy Landon Kassebaum (Republican-Kansas) proposed a blanket freeze on federal spending.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would have ended all cost-of living increases in federal employee salaries, Social Security, and Medicare benefits for fiscal year 1985. Biden and three other senators stated that they support the freeze in a Washington Post joint op-ed. \u201cfederal deficits are a clear and present danger to our economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed that Republicans had voted for him. \u201csay if we don\u2019t cut Social Security and Medicare, they\u2019ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history,\u201d He did not mention that he wanted to do it previously. Biden supported an amended debt limit bill by Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts in October 1984. Tsongas&#8217; amendment would have allowed for an increase in the debt limit that was less than the original bill. It also prohibited additional debt limit increases until Congress had enacted a spending freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said he supported Tsongas\u2019 action precisely \u201cbecause it says we cannot increase the debt limit again until we have acted on a budget freeze\u201d\u2014one that would, like Biden\u2019s spring proposal, have frozen Medicare and Social Security benefits. Biden voted against increasing the debt limit after the Tsongas Amendment failed.<\/p>\n<p>As important as Biden\u2019s support for a freeze was his publicly stated reason for suggesting it. He claimed that a federal spending freeze would be effective because voters in an October 1984 speech. \u201care not stupid\u2026They are not dumb. These folks understand. They know that to cut the deficit, everybody has to be in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the president attacked lawmakers who \u2018want Medicare and Social Security to sunset,\u2019 he should have included himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1840122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3620,9677,7189,4159,4066,3646,5127,4126],"class_list":["post-1840119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden","tag-cut","tag-joe","tag-medicare","tag-multiple","tag-security","tag-social","tag-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}