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Laura Davison, Christian Hall and Jordan Fabian

Republicans call Biden ‘liar’ in off-script tussle over Medicare

WASHINGTON — If President Joe Biden was trying to agitate Republicans over cutting Social Security and Medicare, it worked.

He and House Republicans got into a shouting match in the middle of the State of the Union address after he said some of them favored cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shook his head silently, while firebrand conservative Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, stood and shouted “liar” over Biden.

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