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    Michael Hiltzik: GOP promises to gut your Social Security, Medicare if it takes power

    It used to be a truism that no elected office-holders would dare to tamper with Social Security if they wished to keep their jobs. That must not be true any longer, judging from the surge in threats to the revered program coming from the GOP lately. In its latest manifestation, four Republicans angling to become chair of the House Budget Committee in a Republican House talked openly about ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Oct 20, 2022 6 minutes
    Steve Scalise speaks to members of the press after a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol July 22, 2021 in Washington, DC.

    It used to be a truism that no elected office-holders would dare to tamper with Social Security if they wished to keep their jobs.

    That must not be true any longer, judging from the surge in threats to the revered program coming from the GOP lately.

    In its latest manifestation, four Republicans angling to become chair of the House Budget Committee in a Republican House talked openly about holding the federal debt ceiling hostage to an agreement on "entitlements" — that is, Social Security and Medicare — plainly aimed at cutting benefits.

    In fact, the Republicans are proposing to deny benefits to millions of Americans, all in the name of "strengthening and shoring up" those programs, as House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., described the proposals for Fox News on Oct. 16. More on that in a moment.

    In interviews with Bloomberg, the four laid out their vision. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., said the GOP's focus in budget cutting has "got

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