{"id":1002727,"date":"2018-10-25T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002727"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:15","slug":"editorial-boards-republicans-want-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/editorial-boards-republicans-want-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Boards: Republicans Want To Gut Social Security And Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial boards across the country have called out Republicans for wanting to gut Medicare and Social Security to pay for their massive tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations.<\/p>\n

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial<\/a>: \u201cPredictably, Republicans Hint That Tax-Plan Deficit Justifies Entitlement Cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charleston Gazette-Mail Editorial<\/a>: \u201cRight On Schedule, Now The GOP Thinks There Is Too Much Social Security And Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Times-Tribune Editorial<\/a>: \u201cFor McConnell to target \u2018entitlements\u2019 as the means to pay for that largess to the wealthy is the height of cynicism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican Editorial:<\/a> \u201cOn Tuesday, just a day after it was announced that the federal deficit went through the roof, McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, pointed to spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as the real sources of the problem\u2026 We are moving in the wrong direction during boom times. And the cause, despite what McConnell would have folks believe, are the GOP’s improvident tax cuts, not entitlement spending.\u201d<\/p>\n

Portland Press Herald Editorial<\/a>: \u201cThe loss of revenue caused by the tax cut has led Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call for cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Poliquin said there is a \u2018finite amount of money out there\u2019 for the temporary food assistance that helps thousands of Mainers, and he has championed policies in the House farm bill that worsened hunger here in Maine\u2026 It\u2019s time for a change. Golden\u2019s record shows that in Congress he would be a better representative for Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Star-Ledger Editorial<\/a>: \u201cThey have exploded our federal deficit, and to \u2018solve\u2019 this, Republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan \u2014 who just campaigned for Webber \u2014 are now threatening to cut Medicare and Social Security. They are also still vowing to repeal Obamacare\u2026 Judge Sherrill by the people she runs around with, Webber demands. Well, judge him by that measure too \u2014 and above all, his own record, which proves that he\u2019s far too extreme for the people of this district.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Editorial boards across the country have called out Republicans for wanting to gut Medicare and Social Security to pay for their massive tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial: \u201cPredictably, Republicans Hint That Tax-Plan Deficit Justifies Entitlement Cuts.\u201d Charleston Gazette-Mail Editorial: \u201cRight On Schedule, Now The GOP Thinks There Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEditorial Boards: Republicans Want To Gut Social Security And Medicare - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/editorial-boards-republicans-want-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-25T09:48:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/editorial-boards-republicans-want-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/editorial-boards-republicans-want-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare\/\",\"name\":\"Editorial Boards: Republicans Want To Gut Social Security And Medicare - 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