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Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation’s highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. Few Americans would be OK with some ways politicians have suggested to shore up the programs: 79% say they oppose reducing the size of Social Security benefits and 67% are against raising monthly premiums for Medicare. About 65 million older and disabled people access government-sponsored health insurance through Medicare and rely on monthly payments from Social Security.

Basically means that program will get authorized for something like four years. and then if it's not reauthorized, they don't fund it anymore. that's hence for the term sunset comes from now. biden introduced a bill in 1975 that did the exact same thing. it's sunset all federal legislation without exemptions for social security and medicare. and what's interesting about this? is biden's bill to do this. this sunset legislation was the first ever of its kind. we just saw on the screen where he was basically boasting about how he sort of almost invented this concept of sunsetting at the federal ...

Building Support for Entitlement Reform

Propagate the ethanol industry among rural farmers. he went after desantis for entitlement programs, social security and medicare. he said desantis is an acolyte of paul ryan, reminds him of mitt romney. what it took me back to was in october of 2015, when i was sitting in a similar theater, when you saw ben carson looking like he'd be competitive with donald trump donald trump there reenact ed, ben carson supposedly stabbed somebody in his youth, and the crowd was in awe of what was taking place on stage. eight years later, donald trump is back at it here in the town of davenport this time, i...

But the chair of the budget committee telling "the washington post" we're going to see a budget that continues to increase taxes, continues to have this. so they have criticism planned. the question is you have power. you have this new authority. put yours in writing. when? >> so i was talking to the top democrat on this budget committee. he was saying they don't think they are going to be able to get it out until may. then there's a question of whether republicans can pass it on the floor. they can only lose 5 votes in this majority right now. so this gets to the larger argument. republicans ...