Nadene Goldfoot
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell flatly said that, if the Republicans win control of the Senate, sunsetting Social Security and Medicare “would not be a part of our agenda.” Democrats Misleadingly Claim ‘Republicans’ Plan’ Would ‘End’ Social Security, Medicare. Addison Mitchell McConnell III, Republican, is an American politician and retired attorney serving as Senate minority leader since 2021 and as the senior United States senator from Kentucky. Currently in his seventh term, McConnell has held the seat since 1985.
Instead, Rick Scott, Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial committee, from Florida , Outlining his vision for what he thinks a Republican-controlled Congress should do after the 2022 elections, Scott in February put out “An 11-Point Plan to Rescue America.” chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, says he doesn’t want to end those programs, and he doesn’t know any Republican legislators who do. Again, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell flatly said that, if the Republicans win control of the Senate, sunsetting Social Security and Medicare “would not be a part of our agenda.” Not to worry!
"Under Point Six, which aims to shrink the size of the federal government, Scott writes, “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.” Scott also writes that he would: “Force Congress to issue a report every year telling the public what they plan to do when Social Security and Medicare go bankrupt." Doesn't this mean that he forsees them going bankrupt in 5 years if a plan isn't prepared now to prevent that from happening, not that the Republicans are going to bankrupt it or let it die out. Or, can what keeps seniors alive with social security, medicare and medicaid be sunsetted?
The Sunset Clause: In public policy, a sunset provision or sunset clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides that the law shall cease to have effect after a specific date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend the law. Most laws do not have sunset clauses and therefore remain in force indefinitely, except under systems in which desuetude applies.
However, As part of his plan to downsize the federal government, Republican Sen. Rick Scott says he wants all federal legislation to “sunset” in five years, and “[i]f a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.”
Well, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were all created by legislation. And now Democrats are saying Republicans want to end those programs.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that the Social Security program requires reform before it runs out of funding. The most recent calculations, reported in 2021 by the Social Security Board of Trustees, found that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund, which funds Social Security benefits for retirees ages 62 and up, could run out by the end of 2033.
In essence, Social Security benefits could be at stake every five years, creating “substantial uncertainty for seniors and […] problems for future retirees,” Christy Bieber of Motley Fool wrote. Christy Bieber is a full-time personal finance and legal writer with more than a decade of experience. She has a JD from UCLA as well as a degree in English ... However, if the Senate takes the majority in the upcoming election, with Mitch McConnell becoming majority leader, there is likely no cause for alarm. There would be screams from both Democrats and Republican Senior if they used the Sunset clause on Social Securiy, Medicare and Medicaid.
Then again, read on to see what the Republicans did previously for their own states.
In 2018, The Republicans were cutting health benefits but keeping tax cuts for the wealthy. "Senate Republicans recently released their budget for 2018. Following the lead of previous Republican budgets written by President Donald Trump – and by Paul Ryan and Tom Price before him – the Senate Republicans’ budget would make devastating cuts to programs working families rely on, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy." New Jersey is in for many cuts, and the Republicans in the House are following Oroho's plans.
This budget for 2024 plans to spend excess revenue for tax relief. Where does excess revenue come from? Why cuts, of course.
"- U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday proposed higher defense spending and deep cuts to social services including healthcare for the poor in an aggressive new budget plan that seeks to eliminate deficits by 2024."
Tom Price, b: 1954, worked on the last House budget, and is an American physician and Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district, encompassing the northern suburbs of Atlanta, from 2005 to 2017. While in Congress, Price chaired the House Committee on the Budget, Republican Study Committee and Republican Policy Committee. He also has set the standards for 2024.
The blueprint from House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, which has almost no chance of becoming law, prescribes $5.468 trillion in spending cuts and interest savings over 10 years compared to current policies. Like the budgets of Price’s predecessor, Representative Paul Ryan, the document assumes $2 trillion in 10-year savings from full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the signature healthcare reform law that President Barack Obama has vowed to defend."
In a series of reports in September 2017, Politico reported that since May 2017, Price had expended more than $1 million of department funds for his own travel on private charter jets and military aircraft. Many of the flights were between cities that are easily accessible by train or car and have frequent, low-cost commercial airline service.
House Democrats spent former President Donald Trump’s final years in office passing bills that withered in the Senate but shaped the party’s presidential-campaign agenda — and as 2024 approaches, their GOP colleagues are poised to follow the same model.
Republicans gearing up for a House takeover this fall are privately crafting legislative goals for next year that would almost certainly fall prey to the Senate filibuster and not become law, regardless of which party controls the upper chamber. GOP lawmakers involved with those task forces say they’re crafting the agenda without considering Senate limitations. That includes trying to pass a balanced budget and extending Trump-era tax cuts that were opposed by every Senate Democrat in 2017. “I hope that we don’t let the Senate dictate our actions,” said Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), who plans to run for Budget Committee chair if the GOP wins the majority. “We will work with them, but at the same time I don’t want us to ignore some of our priorities just because we think the Senate’s not going to go along with them.”
"Overall, the Administration’s VA budget request for FY 2023 is a very strong proposal that would provide comprehensive and justified increases across most of the discretionary appropriations accounts. The largest share of the discretionary budget request is for the VA health care system. The Administration’s Total Medical Care funding request for FY 2023, including both VA- and community-provided care, is approximately $122.7 billion, which is slightly higher than the IB’s estimate of $121.2 billion."
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015e-e710-ddab-a57f-ef54f67a0000 (2018)
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2022/05/27/republican-budget-calls-for-permanent-tax-cuts-amid-surging-revenue/ (2024)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-republicans/u-s-republican-budget-cuts-social-spending-boosts-military-idUSKBN0MD1KU20150317
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price_(American_politician)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/06/filibuster-house-gop-2024-midterms-majority-00037361
https://www.vfw.org/advocacy/national-legislative-service/congressional-testimony/2022/6/a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2023-budget-and-2024-advance-appropriations
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