JUST IN: Ryan promises Medicaid, Medicare spending cuts in 2018 to "tackle the deficit" https://t.co/u1Zg7hwzEw pic.twitter.com/17DQUpJW6q
— The Hill (@thehill) December 6, 2017
There's a reason you hear progressives say 1) the GOP plans to slash Medicare & Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the top 1%: and 2) the GOP is willing to blow a hole in the deficit as an excuse to slash Medicare & Medicaid. The reason? Its so true, they actually brag about it. https://t.co/mlPXo8qp9s
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) December 7, 2017
Dear media friends, I propose not using the word 'gutting' when referring to reforming entitlement programs – which is definitely needed and can come in many different forms. That seems an unfairly loaded term.
— Maya MacGuineas (@MayaMacGuineas) December 7, 2017
How about not using the unfairly loaded term “entitlement” and instead “social insurance” https://t.co/YqfQhSwmy9
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) December 7, 2017
To reiterate:
There are hundreds of Republican Party members of Congress.
Each of them wakes up every morning and says to himself “today, I am going to abdicate my constitutional responsibility to police the Trump family’s financial conflicts of interest.”
— Subscribe to My Newsletter (@mattyglesias) December 9, 2017
For any given GOP member you can come up with a plausible political/ideological theory for turning a blind eye.
But literally none of them have at any point suggested doing anything at all about any aspect of this mind-boggling corruption.
— Subscribe to My Newsletter (@mattyglesias) December 9, 2017
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