“Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has introduced a budget amendment demanding that the U.S. Senate insure there are no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.“
The vote is scheduled for Tuesday the 10th at 2:30pm EST.
Jason Easley writes at PoliticusUSA.com:
During an interview on CBS’s Face The Nation, Priebus said, “I don’t think President-elect Trump wants to meddle with Medicare or Social Security. He made a promise in the campaign that that was something that he didn’t want to do. But what he wants to do is grow the economy, help shore up Medicare and Social Security for future generations. And if we can get three to five, 6% growth, we’ll do that. And we’ll explode the economy, and bring jobs back, and make trade more fair across the world, lower rates for everyone, and I think hopefully get businesses going again so people can put more money in their pocket.”
Sen Sanders said that Priebus’s remarks were not good enough, “At a time when the Republican leadership is working overtime to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, the statement by Mr. Priebus is just not good enough. Mr. Trump must make it clear to the American people that he will keep the promises he made during the campaign and veto any legislation that cuts Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”
Sanders is about to put Republicans to the test. The Senator from Vermont has a vote scheduled for Tuesday on a budget amendment that would prevent the Senate from breaking Trump’s campaign promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare.
The vote is scheduled for Tuesday the 10th at 2:30pm EST.
Call and write your senators to cosponsor and support this amendment!
Unless they are on the current cosponsor list, in which case, thank them!
- Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
- Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
- Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
- Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
- Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
- Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
- Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
- Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
- Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
- Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
- Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
- Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
- Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
- Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
- Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
- Reed, Jack [D-RI]
- Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
- Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
- Udall, Tom [D-NM]
- Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
- Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]