Mick Mulvaney, nominee for White House Budget Director. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/24LWFiv A full Senate vote is expected sometime Thursday afternoon on Donald Trump’s pick for White House Budget Director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney. That means that Mulvaney’s nomination could come up for a vote just as a group of lawmakers and …
Politicians aiming to cut Social Security and Medicare use weasel words to hide their plans. Let’s call them on it.
Photo: Jeremy Keith via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/r5gwLo In this era in which the Orwellian manipulation of language by politicians to say the opposite of what they mean has reached a fever pitch, we should be especially wary when conservatives hide their plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits behind a smokescreen of euphemism. Jared Bernstein, a …
Trump: I’ll protect Social Security. Trump’s budget director: Maybe not.
Tom Price speaking, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 6th district. Photo: Mark Taylor via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/ebTB2u One of Donald Trump’s most consistent positions throughout the presidential election was that he would not, under any circumstances, cut Medicare and Social Security. Let’s roll the tape: I was the first & …
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