Will Dems Cut Soc Security & Medicare After Bad Midterm?

Will Dems Cut Soc Security & Medicare After Bad Midterm?
(AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
If you want to understand one of the many real dangers of Republicans winning the midterms,  then just go back a dozen years to see what happened to the politics of Social Security when the Democratic White House last lost Congress to the Republicans.

Then remember that the Democratic president this time around isn’t some newbie just starting to toy with the idea of cutting benefits. The Oval Office occupant is a career politician who has spent much of his adult life pushing Social Security and Medicare cuts using the same “entitlement reform” language that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) began floating this week during a televised debate with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

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