Republicans Already Planning Next Debt Ceiling Showdown

"The November elections will likely give Republicans control of the House of Representatives as a platform from which to oppose the Democratic-controlled White House. And one thing Republicans will do with this power, in all probability, will be to try to provoke a crisis in order to extort Democrats into accepting spending cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Bloomberg’s Jack Fitzpatrick interviewed several Republican contenders to lead the House Budget Committee. They all said, with varying levels of specificity, that they plan to instigate a debt-ceiling standoff to force Biden to accept cuts to retirement and health-care programs. “Our main focus has got to be on nondiscretionary — it’s got to be on entitlements,” said Representative Buddy Carter. Representative Jodey Arrington said he wants “eligibility reforms,” which means raising the eligibility age and imposing a means test for Social Security and Medicare benefits. “We should ensure that we keep the promises that were made to the people who really need it, the people who are relying on it,” said Representative Lloyd Smucker. “So some sort of means-testing potentially would help to ensure that we can do that.”

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[yishnir]

This whole piece was truly phenomenal reporting. Thank you for gathering all the relevant quotes and citations. Please keep coming back to this topic.

[monorail]

The GOP has never passed a meaningful bill that helps the average American.

[johnnyfreedom]

Social Security isn't a giveaway, it's a pension plan like any other pension plan that existed in my era. Because corporations don't offer pensions anymore that's about the only income 50% of us have! What would this country do with 60 million homeless seniors?! #VOTEBLUE22

[dnate]

I disagree Anna, they are NOT SLEEP AT THE WHEEL. These folks are working extremely Hard and VERY actively fighting for their interests. They don't seem to care if it will bring the rest of the country down.

[mr_gingersnap]

👏*slow clap* 👏 Ana is bringing the receipts and spilling some hot tea! Calling out the disgusting hypocrisy of the GOP and wiping their faces with it. 👏 👏 👏

[wmsmith]

Amazing job here. You're the best. Couldn't have said it better.

[cassiusdhami]

"Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact that is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[petersulewski]

you know what would save the US tons of money? not rebuilding the entire state of Florida every other year

[daugpileproductions]

Here is what I don't understand. We wouldn't have a debt crisis if the rich paid their fair share of taxes. Why is this even on the table? How come a billionaire (supposedly ha) only owed half the taxes that I did? I live very close to the poverty line. I don't hate the rich, fine great, you did good. I do want them to pay their fair share. It won't affect their lives one bit and it would help the rest of us 99% immeasurably.

[billybobhobnob]

This time Dems should not concede on one thing to raise the debt cap and let it go to hell - maybe the big corporate donners would then think twice about funding loony republicans.

[stevecollins]

President Biden and Katie Porter should be bringing her white board in front of the American people once/week in order to teach some basic government economics.

[bigbaddawg]

There's no doubt in my mind that the old people in my state on Social Security and Medicare will 100% support republicans cutting Social Security and Medicare. They usually vote against their own interests.

[ActiveSneakers]

Truth. Employer always seek to pay the worker below the minimum wage.

[PatHUMANITY]

Isn't it about time Ana received her due as AT LEAST a respected journalist?

[jeffalobill]

I think “We paid into it” is too vague. Look at your paystub—“SSI” is “Social Security INSURANCE.” It’s
a government-run retirement plan (“insurance “) into which we pay every payday. It’s our money, not theirs. It’s our investment in our future, not into the federal general fund.

[patriciakreckman]

I am a disabled senior citizen whose only income is social security. I worked for 40 years before cancer forced me to retire. Without social security I would be in the street. My father died before he had a chance to get $1.00 of the money that was taken out of his check. My mother soon after. What happened to the thousands of dollars taken from their checks that they didnt receive?
Now add that to the thousands of people who died before they used up all they put in? That adds up to many millions a year that doesn't get paid out. What happens to all that money.
Mitch McConnell & his cronies make me sick. All these millionaires trying to take the money we paid into social security.
For a lot of people S.S. is the only money they get once they retire. They should really think this through . They can either pay us the money they owe us, or they can pay to house us, feed & clothe us etc OR just watch the homeless seniors huddled in the streets, sick and desperate . Since the uber rich keep voting NO to raising the minimum wage to a living wage most middle to low income earners can't afford savings accounts they HAVE to count on S.S. to live on once retired. I'd really love to see every politician who votes no on raising minimum wage be forced to live on $7.25 an hour for everything they need without touching their bank accounts or borrowing money. They would be on their knees crying. Yet millions of people try to do just that.
I am a disabled senior. I can't work. I am sitting here tonight trying to decide which prescriptions I'm not going to get this month. I am on 12 different medications, most of them 3 times a day. I can't afford all of them, so which ones do I skip? Politicians care so much about a zygote growing in a womb, but a living breathing person can go to hell.
Way to go Washington! You certainly get my

[nathanstruble]

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to say "well, guess the only option left is to end the filibuster"

[johnnyfreedom]

We need to buy the front page of every newspaper in the country on November 5th! Layout the entire Republican plan alongside the Democratic plan! They may not believe it, but at least it would give them a chance at the truth!!

[darcieanne]

Social Security is not an entitlement and shouldn't be considered as an entitlement we all put into the system. Even if we have Medicare, we still pay for it. If they want to cut anything congress should take a cut in pay and congress will also loose on their stocks big time

[stevefitt]

Again, THE reason that the S.S Trust Fund is going to run out of money is that real wages have been flat for over 45 years. If real wages had kept up with inflation the min. wage would be over $18/hr. and maybe over $23/hr. If the min. wage was over $20/hr. now, then all wages would be about 2 to 3 times higher than they are now. If wages were 3 times more than they are now, the FICA tax would bring in 3 times more money than it does. With 2 to 3 times more money coming in now and for the last 4 decades, we could soon be taking about cutting the FICA tax.