— by Michael Phelan, Social Security Works
donald trump won’t be sworn in for two weeks, but Republicans in Congress have already begun their assault on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
On the first day of the new Congress, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution to repeal the Affordable Care Act and set the stage to destroy Medicare.
In recent weeks, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has been pushing a lie that’s disgusting even by his standards. He claims that the Affordable Care Act has hurt Medicare’s finances when the exact opposite is true. And therefore, says Ryan, we need to destroy Medicare in order to “save it.”
donald trump ran on a promise to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid from Republican attacks! Social Security Works and Senator Bernie Sanders in demanding that trump keep his promise.
Senator Sanders is organizing a national day of action on Sunday, January 15th. Rallies will be held around the country demanding that trump keep his promise and pledge to veto all cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
With complete control of Congress and the White House, Republicans are unleashing their plan to destroy our earned benefits. We must fight back and remind them that nobody voted for these devastating cuts!
Instead of cuts to our earned benefits, we should expand the most successful social insurance programs in our country’s history.