Mike Johnson Is Talking About Cutting Social Safety Net Programs

GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security

Trump has repeatedly vowed to defend these landmark safety-net programs. It was another lie

Here We Go Again With This Social Security Bullsh*t

It's inevitable. Republicans run up the deficit, then use it as a pretext for cutting programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Republicans wince as Speaker Johnson grabs the third rail: report

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson may push a reform on a key issue that will put them even further on the bad side of the American public.“Mike Johnson did something very out of character Monday,” wrote The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday. “Normally coy in public, the speaker of the House openly admitted to a radio interviewer that if Republicans retain their majority heading into next year, they are planning to flatten t…

Mike Johnson shredded by analyst for 'dumb' move to kick politics' biggest hornet's nest

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) got a tongue-lashing from The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday for going after one of the most beloved and fiercely-guarded programs in America: Social Security.“The reason we’re in trouble is because over seventy-four percent of federal spending is on autopilot ...

Mike Johnson Is Talking About Cutting Social Safety Net Programs

‘They Have to be Adjusted and Fixed’ Austerity only matters when Democrats are in charge. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) signaled this week how Republicans may begin stonewalling and messaging about Democrats should the party succeed in taking back the House this fall. Buried at the bottom of a Washington Post piece about how the Social Security trust fund will begin running low on money by 2032, an insolvency problem that President Trump’s i…

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error

Social Security is popular. Cutting it is not.