President Biden’s recently resurfaced attempts to cut Social Security and Medicare are no longer part of his agenda, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
Biden claimed that Republicans were trying to cut social security and Medicare programs.Tuesday night when he claimed that they were trying to cut the programs, faced accusations of hypocrisy Wednesday when it emerged that he had in fact pushed to sunset federal laws and to freeze cost-of-living increases to the senior benefit programs throughout his 36 years in the Senate.
In 1984, he cosponsored legislation to freeze federal spending and suspend cost of living increases for Social Security.
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