So, Republican voter, did you intend massive cuts to Social Security when you marked that ballot in 2024, or did you take Donald Trump at his word that he wouldn’t cut even a dollar from that program?
The Washington Post reported:
By Friday, Johnson appeared to have split the debt ceiling question from the struggle to keep the government open. Instead of acting on it now, he proposed a handshake deal with fiscal hawks in his own party to try next year to slash mandatory spending — programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ health care and food stamps — by at least $2.5 trillion while raising the debt cap by $1.5 trillion, according to three people familiar with the details.1
Johnson also said publicly that his deal had buy-in from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
I’m getting ready for a blue wave in 2026.
