Former President Donald Trump campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio, claiming he will protect Social Security and warning of a 'bloodbath' if he loses in November. Trump's statements on entitlements sparked a battle with President Biden over retirement programs. House Republicans are pushing to raise the Social Security retirement age and cut benefits, with proposals to tie eligibility age to life expectancy and increase Medicare Advantage insurer reimbursement rates. The GOP's focus on cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits has raised concerns among lawmakers and seniors about potential harm to retirees' financial security.
🚨House Republicans just put out a new plan for attacking Social Security.🚨 Raising the retirement age is just another way to say "cutting Social Security benefits" — and @HouseDemocrats and @POTUS won't let them get away with it. https://t.co/KXpGiJuO3M https://t.co/9N8IZiZt6c
"Instead of saving Social Security and Medicare by making billionaires pay their fair share, House Republicans would rather break the sacred promise that every American should be able to retire with dignity." @CongBoyle on the Republican Study Committee's 2025 budget. ⤵️
🚨 House Republicans want to raise the retirement age. We're going to stop them. https://t.co/c4LJbUb5Wf
The largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age, setting up a clash with Biden over entitlement spending https://t.co/XhRCgcasQa
Republicans are obsessed with going after & gutting social security!!! https://t.co/Bc21jLP6Z1
What is the @GOP obsession with taking away people’s hard earned benefits? Retirees deserve peace of mind, not threats to cut or gut #SocialSecurity. https://t.co/PyIyvIiTsz
"The Republican Study Committee, which comprises about 80% of House Republicans, called for the Social Security eligibility age to be tied to life expectancy in its FY2025 budget proposal" in practice: a major cut the overall budget plan calls for +$16 trillion in spending cuts https://t.co/S9HDKY1eBP
Republicans are pushing for HUGE cuts to #SocialSecurity and #Medicare. Means-testing (undermines popular support), privatization (Medicare Advantage), benefit cuts (raising retirement age)... ✂️✂️👵✂️✂️👴✂️✂️👩🦽✂️✂️🩺✂️✂️💊✂️✂️ https://t.co/buJcOtIu8p
You now have Trump expressing support for cutting Social Security benefits and the vast majority of House Republicans expressing support for cutting benefits and raising the retirement age. Social Security is at stake in this election. https://t.co/JngoDcFiJM
Republicans are SCREAMING the quiet part out loud: they want to raise the retirement age and slash Social Security benefits, all to line the pockets of billionaires and big corporations. https://t.co/3t9Zn30Faa
"The largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age Wednesday, setting up a clash with President Joe Biden" https://t.co/lEsrXFd80N
NEW: Republicans call for raising the Social Security retirement age in clash with Biden, via @jackfitzdc https://t.co/8Vjvf4xD50
Wow. This Social Security proposal by the largest caucus of House Republicans looks a lot like they want to cut benefits? Raise the retirement age? Reduce benefits for top earners? Phasing out auxiliary benefits? https://t.co/OAZsHTuOhO
ICYMI: I recently sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services urging the agency to reevaluate the proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage plans for 2025 that will harm seniors. https://t.co/JqMF9b4PWl
Medicare Advantage Is Under Fire. What It Means for Your Health—and Wallet. https://t.co/BIiODMbJAq
Republicans are obsessed with two future goals: cutting Social Security and Medicare and tax cuts for billionaires, with the former paying for the latter. These benefits are not handouts, they are hard-earned benefits that Americans have paid into their entire working lives. https://t.co/Nf3yDjlIRY
The proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage insurer reimbursement rate for 2025, on top of previous cuts in 2024, are an alarming prospect for seniors, who are especially sensitive to rising prices that pensions aren’t keeping up with. I joined 45 Representatives in a letter to… https://t.co/WQ2d98o7kE
Former President Donald Trump has been all over the place on Social Security and Medicare, from calling for cuts to portraying himself as a protector of those programs. https://t.co/p9xS2K5iyK
When former President Trump said last week on CNBC that “there’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” it sparked an immediate outcry from President Biden and began a battle over retirement programs. https://t.co/9DBSwlKbEQ
Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a "bloodbath" if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. https://t.co/ckQx57VgXQ