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That sunsets social security and medicare in five years. and senator ron johnson has suggested that entitlement programs, social security and medicare included, should be discretionary that congress has to approve annually. in fairness scott and johnson have repeatedly said they dont want to cut those benefits and other republicans quickly stanced themselves from all the sunset stuff. it is not a majority position of the party. but the idea that biden is just making it up as congresswoman greene...

Plan that wasnt endorsed by the vast majority of the republican conference and thats emblematic of what you saw last night. speaker kevin mccarthy has been explicit, reforms to those two entitlement programs not on the table in negotiations over how to increase the debt ceiling, and yet because republicans have not put out their own plan in terms of what they would like in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling, democrats and the white house in particular are able to cite past plans from t...

Reacting this morning. listen, i think it is interesting that you have the speaker this morning and the speaker had said that prior to the state of the union. there were republicans that were calling for this. both things can be true in this moment. they are reporting that they feel like they have not choreographed this better. there was choreography. in terms of the economic message. >> republicans have boxed themselves in. they care about deficits and their concerns go underground for a few ye...

Majority amid a standoff over the debt ceiling and the president really taking aim at republicans over proposals that he said would cut entitlement programs. its an opportunity for him to lay out whats at stake and i think project this notion as he has in the past of steady leadership, lifting the nation out of a pandemic. leading the countrys response to the war in ukraine which is entering its second year. so the platform is not lost on this white house. especially as youve seen the president ...

America's two biggest entitlement programs - which make up about a third of the federal budget - are all but certain to remain at the center of the debt ceiling debate, at least when Democrats are speaking.

America's two biggest entitlement programs - which make up about a third of the federal budget - are all but certain to remain at the center of the debt ceiling debate, at least when Democrats are speaking.

Negotiation on deficit reduction. that would involve both sides laying ou out their budgets. the white house will put out their budget on march 9, house republicans havent yet set a date. but white house officials want to lay out political fodder making it clear that they are ready to attack anything republicans put on the table in terms of cuts, whether it is on entitlement programs, on any type of domestic spending. this is thought something that testily will launch a full-scale deficit reduct...

Congress must get federal spending and borrowing under control and get out of the way of job creation in the private sector.

Both capitalist parties, Democrats as well as Republicans, seek to impose the cost of their wars, Wall Street bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy on working people.

0 >> okay. how about article 2? >> neither is article 2. >> you want to be a federal judge and you dont know what article 5 and article 2 which creates executive. you dont know what they are. you want to be a federal judge? you dont know what its articles say? we will be back tomorrow. have a great night. welcome to hannity. we begin this busy newsnight with a fox news alert. the state of tennessee is on edge. five former memphis police officers now have been arrested and they have been charge...