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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 don't 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 and others claim, he is not. >> and the president also boasted about cutting the federal budget de...

Plan that wasn't endorsed by the vast majority of the republican conference and that's 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 the republican study committee, past votes from speaker kevin mccarthy or the plan by senator rick ...

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 years well the president is a republican. they keep saying that they care about deficits. some of them...

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. it's an opportunity for him to lay out what's 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 country's response to the war in ukraine which is entering its second year. so the platform is not lost on this white house. especially as you've seen the president struggle with his approval ratings in recent months. >> and susan, let's talk about the timing o...

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.