GOP appears to turn tables in Social Safety fight

“We’ll in no way get these applications reformed and saved with no presidential leadership,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) stated this week, arguing President Biden is “not undertaking something.”

The criticism comes as Republicans have been dialing up the stress on the White Home to do much more to address the funding threats facing Social Safety, with some needling Biden for not delivering a strategy to shore up solvency for the plan in his current fiscal 2024 price range request. 

In a pair of Senate hearings this week, Republicans grilled White Home officials about the absence of the strategy, even though searching for to counter attacks doled out by their colleagues across the aisle who have accused the GOP of wanting to reduce Social Safety. 

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) broached the problem in a charged line of questioning to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen throughout a Finance Committee hearing Thursday.

“Of the $four.five trillion in taxes he has proposed, not a dime is going to shore up Social Safety,” Cassidy stated, prior to asking moments later “why does not the president care” about threats to the program’s funding.

Cassidy also stated a bipartisan group of senators involved in an work he is top to discover prospective options to extend the lifetime of the plan produced numerous requests to meet with the president.

Although Yellen stated that the president “stands ready” to operate with Congress on the problem, Cassidy referred to as the statement a “lie.”

“Because when a bipartisan group of senators has repeatedly requested to meet with him about Social, so that somebody who is a present beneficiary will not see her added benefits reduce by 24 %, we have not heard something on our request,” he stated. 

“And we’ve produced numerous requests to meet with the president,” Cassidy added.

Study much more on how the dynamic played out in hearings this week right here.