President Biden renewed his dubious claim Thursday that congressional Republicans are angling to gut Social Security and Medicare during a trip to Florida — without addressing new hypocrisy allegations from Republicans who note Biden actually pushed such policies for decades.
Biden entirely ignored the re-discovery of his own past advocacy during a GOP-bashing speech in Tampa — though White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed about the awkward juxtaposition during a press gaggle on Air Force One.
“Is the only difference the fact that Biden’s no longer in favor of that?” a reporter asked Jean-Pierre, referring to Biden’s attack on a plan by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to sunset all federal laws after five years and Biden’s own 1975 bill to do the same thing every four years.
“A bill from the 1970s is not part of the president’s agenda. You have to listen to what the president said the last couple of years about protecting and fighting for Medicare and Social Security and that will remain the case,” Jean-Pierre said.
“He was very clear when he spoke to millions of Americans at the State of the Union [Tuesday] about that. He’ll be clear today when he’s in Florida on what he sees [as] the fight ahead, and how important it is to protect again, what taxpayers have paid into and what they deserve, Medicare and Social Security.”
When he took the stage in Tampa, Biden slammed Scott for his “outrageous” proposal and criticized a separate plan from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to hold annual votes on federal spending without explicitly vowing to ax the programs.
“Look, I know that a lot of Republicans, their dream is to cut Social Security, Medicare. Well, let me say this: If that’s your dream, I’m your nightmare,” Biden said.
We do need to stop giving it to people that didn’t contribute!
We do need to put the politicians on it and take away their government pensions!
We need to raise the income ceiling so the higher earners contribute more!
Democrats do ALL the BAD & try to Blame Republicans for what THEY did !!
For the life of me, I can not understand why every single Republican in the US House and Senate don’t post this video of then Senator Biden screaming to freeze Social Security and Medicare on their Facebook page and Twitter. Biden says he’s called for a freeze on SS and MC multiple times. He admits it. It’s crazy.