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Perdue: Saving Social Security and Medicare Can Lead Republicans to Victory
 [PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) told PJM that saving Medicare and Social Security and cutting "excess" federal spending are winning issues for Republicans in the midterm elections.The Trump administration has projected that the Medicare Trust Fund would be depleted by 2026 while the Social Security Trust Fund is estimated to run out by 2034. "I think it's our opportunity to save Social Security and Medicare after 60 years of outrageous, irresponsible liberal spending, in that the formula wouldn’t work. Lyndon Johnson knew it when they put the Great Society in and they liberalized the Social Security plan and so forth; they knew it was never going to be sustainable. Here we are at the end of that run and it's not sustainable, so we as Republicans could be seen as the saviors of Social Security; it is not that hard," Perdue told PJM during a recent interview at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-30 |
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