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Feb 9, 2023 · 5 hours ago. Utah Sen. Mike Lee has responded to criticism he recently received on social media after users resurfaced comments he made in 2010 about wanting to "pull up" and "get rid of" Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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At least one of the "some Republicans" Biden referred to was Scott of Florida. This is clear from Biden's prepared remarks, from which he deviated when he was interrupted. The full line would have been Those final three words tie the statement to a proposal made as part of an "11-point plan" tied to Scott's 2020 Senate campaign and also to a curren...
After the 2023 State of the Union address, a clip went viral that juxtaposed Lee's outrage at the suggestion some Republicans might have proposed sunsetting benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare with an example of him allegedly proposing to do that: The comparison video, accordingto Newsweek, dates back to a 2010 campaign event in Cach...
Johnson of Wisconsin comes up as an example of a Republican open, at least implicitly, to letting Social Security and Medicare expire. This comes from his past support for categorizing Social Security and Medicare as discretionary spending that would be subject to approval on an annual basis. The comments, reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
Graham of South Carolina is often included in these memes because he has longchampioned "entitlement reform." Under this title, he has proposed several items that would, in effect, reduce the amount of money the government spends on services like Social Security and Medicare, including raising the age at which one can receive benefits:. As reported...
The Iowa senator has also been included in memes about Republicans willing to sunset or remove Social Security because of her alleged willingness to make cuts to the program. Like Graham, Ernst has not directly proposed sunsetting the programs, but she did generate controversy when she proposed, in a video taken in 2019, that members of Congress si...
Additionally, several other Republican members of the House of Representatives have endorsed a document produced by a group called the "Republican Study Committee" — describedby Vanity Fair as the "House's largest Republican caucus" — that characterizes an amendment to the 2023 budget that would "sunset all regulations after three years" as a "comm...
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Feb 9, 2023 · By Dennis Romboy. President Joe Biden didn’t want to name names during his State of the Union address of Republicans in Congress of those who he says want to get rid of Social Security. But he did in a speech in Wisconsin on Wednesday, and Utah Sen. Mike Lee was one of them.
Feb 10, 2023 · And while Lee said in a tweeted statement on Wednesday that, during his 12 years as a senator, he has not called for “abolishing” Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits, only for...
Feb 14, 2023 · It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it out by the roots. — Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), during his 2010 campaign for the Senate. Unfortunately for them, we have the...
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Nov 4, 2022 · SALT LAKE CITY — Just days before Election Day, independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin condemned comments Republican Sen. Mike Lee made about ending Social Security more than a decade...
Feb 8, 2023 · Sen. Mike Lee responded with a statement saying he is aware of no Republican, in either House or Congress, who has suggested any modification of Social Security as a condition for raising...
