Senator Mitch McConnell’s long record of pushing to gut earned benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security is once again in the spotlight as Donald Trump makes the GOP’s latest threat to gut those programs. He led his party’s efforts to pass a budget plan that would “essentially end Medicare by turning it into the voucher program,” as well as other budgets cutting the program by hundreds of billions of dollars, fought to privatize Social Security, and lamented that Republicans’ failure to enact drastic changes to these programs has been the “biggest disappointment of [his] time in Congress.”
Check out the cheat sheet on McConnell’s record supporting Medicare and Social Security cuts:
“Senator Mitch McConnell has spent years leading the charge to gut Kentuckians’ Medicare and Social Security benefits, so it’s no surprise that he is refusing to stand up to his party’s latest threat to put these benefits back on the chopping block,” said DSCC spokesperson Helen Kalla. “Make no mistake — with Medicare and Social Security on the ballot in 2020, Kentuckians know that Senator McConnell is to blame, and he cannot hide from his toxic record of trying to cut, privatize, and undermine his constituents’ retirement security.”
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