what they would end up doing to social security and medicare, they insist on their website this doesn t touch social security and medicare, but you can t do that to the federal budget without affecting social security. for sure. their budget cuts are so severe that the only way you could hit their targets and not hit social security and medicare hard would be, you know, you basically are dismantling things from protecting the food supply to protecting the borders to, you know, running veterans hospitals, air traffic control, and the like. moreover, lawrence, as you know, we do have a long-term fiscal shortfall in social security that we need to close and we need to do it through kind of a mix of revenue and benefit changes. under their proposal, you d have to do 100% of the social security solvency through benefit cuts because you wouldn t be allowed effectively to do any tax measures.
something much more extreme, but they wouldn t let me. what s striking is how extreme they re willing to go in this kinld of document, including what they would end up doing to social security and medicare. they insist on their website, oh, don t worry. this doesn t touch social security and medicare, but you can t do that for the federal budget without affecting social security. for are so severe that the only way you could hit their targets and not hit social security and medicare hard would be, you know, you basically are dismantling things from protecting the food supply to protecting the borders to, you know, running veterans hospitals, air traffic control and the like. moreover, you know, lawrence, as you know, we do have a long-term fiscal shortfall in social security we have to close, and we need to do it through kind of a mix of revenue and other changes, benefit changes. under their proposal you have to do 100% of the social security solvency through benefit cuts
extreme but they wouldn t let me. how extreme they are willing to go in this document, including what they would end up doing to social security and medicare, they insist on their website this doesn t touch social security and medicare, but you can t do that to the federal budget without affecting social security. for sure. their budget cuts are so severe that the only way you could hit their targets and not hit social security and medicare hard would be, you know, you basically are dismantling things from protecting the food supply to protecting the borders to, you know, running veterans hospitals, air traffic control, and the like. moreover, lawrence, as you know, we do have a long-term fiscal shortfall in social security that we need to close and we need to do it through kind of a mix of revenue and benefit changes. under their proposal, you d have to do 100% of the social security solvency through benefit cuts because you wouldn t be allowed effectively
thank you for joining us. a member of the progressive caucus about just as important came to our 15th anniversary party last week. thank you for being one of our great guests. look, i m trying to figure what s givable and what s not. would you agree to any cuts in social security benefits? you know, first of all let s just start from the premise and the president agrees social security is not the reason we ve run up our long-term debts and so my preference would be if we re going to have a conversation about social security solvency beyond 2027 it s not in these debt discussions. the causes of our long-term debt are related to things the republicans don t want to give up on. i d rather have that conversation. we don t deal with associate social security cuts. medicare costs going through the roof. would you touch medicare benefits or costs? no. one of the things we did in the
thank you for joining us. a member of the progressive caucus about just as important came to our 15th anniversary party last week. thank you for being one of our great guests. look, i m trying to figure what s givable and what s not. would you agree to any cuts in social security benefits? you know, first of all let s just start from the premise and the president agrees social security is not the reason we ve run up our long-term debts and so my preference would be if we re going to have a conversation about social security solvency beyond 2027 it s not in these debt discussions. the causes of our long-term debt are related to things the republicans don t want to give up on. i d rather have that conversation. we don t deal with associate social security cuts.