PoliticsUSA has a jaw-dropping report on just how badly the Orange Scrooge and Company plan on completely demolishing our seniors and disabled folks:
- “Sneaking massive benefit cuts through the back door – The Price (incoming HHS
destroyer decimator nominee) proposal includes a devious plan that would likely trigger deep cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other priorities, while avoiding the need for members of Congress to vote directly for the cuts [my note — & would deny Democrats the ability to stop them] … If Republicans were to pass President-Elect Trump’s tax plan, the resulting increase to the deficit, under this plan, could require cuts to Social Security and Medicare of 13.5 percent, meaning the average Social Security beneficiary would lose more than $2,000 a year.
- … subject all benefits to sequestration …
- Unraveling longstanding guarantees to those who rely on Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and other Benefits – ... Americans would have to fight annually for these benefits in the uncertain appropriations process, with no assurance their hard-earned benefits will be there at the end. Given the Republican Congress’s long record of failure to even consider appropriations bills on time, this could threaten the security of millions who rely on promised benefits.
Seriously, read it. What the gop plans for seniors and disabled Americans will devastate millions.