Cheat Sheet: Tillis’ Record of Risking Medicare and Social Security

Trump’s Latest Threat to Medicare, Social Security Spotlights Tillis’ Votes to Cut Billions from Medicare

Senator Thom Tillis’ long record on 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’s voted for budgets that would cut Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and his corporate tax giveaway “trimmed a year of solvency from the primary Medicare trust fund and had a negative effect on the Social Security trust fund.”

Check out the cheat sheet on Tillis’ record on earned benefits programs: 

• 2015: Voted for a budget that called on Medicare to be subjected to “$430 billion in spending cuts without explaining where they would be made.” [Senate Vote 171, 5/5/15; Conference Report, 4/29/15; Bloomberg, 3/27/15; Congressional Actions, S. Con. Res. 11]

• 2017: Voted for a budget resolution that “propose[d] $473 billion in cuts to Medicare’s baseline spending over a decade and about $1 trillion from Medicaid” [Senate Vote 245,10/19/17; The Hill, 10/19/17; Congressional Actions, H. Con. Res. 71]

• 2017: Voted for a corporate tax giveaway that spiked the federal deficit, “trimmed a year of solvency from the primary Medicare trust fund and had a negative effect on the Social Security trust fund.” [Politifact, 9/5/18]

“Senator Thom Tillis has spent years backing proposals that would undermine North Carolinians’ earned benefits programs like Medicare and Social Security, 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, North Carolinians know that Senator Tillis is to blame, and he cannot hide from his toxic record of threatening to undermine his constituents’ retirement security.” 

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