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Rick Scott’s updated policy proposal would exempt ‘Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services’ from his sunset provision

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security

The Florida Republican changed his plan to exclude the programs after backlash from Democrats and his own party

"To say otherwise is a disingenuous Democrat lie," Scott wrote about Biden.

Millions of Americans will find it harder to put enough food on the table starting in March 2023, after a COVID-19 pandemic-era boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits comes to an end. Congress mandated this change in budget legislation it passed in late December 2022.

As legislators refuse to act, benefits will be cut without any possibility of sheltering those seniors who are poor.

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Politicians are again pointing fingers over cutting Medicare. Any party accused of threatening the program tends to lose elections, but without a bipartisan agreement, seniors stand to lose the most.

The daily rate of Adult Disability Payment is the equivalent to one-seventh of the weekly rate.

The old-age entitlement is unsustainable, unfair, and unnecessary. Replace it with something that helps the needy of any age.

The barbs exchanged at the State of the Union address remind us of the ease with which each party feels it can blame the other for the worsening of federal indebtedness year after year, Congress after Congress, and presidential administration after administration. These routinized charges are not only counterproductive, they…