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We Don’t Want To Get Rid Of Social Security; We Just Wanna Make it Available to a Select Few

 A brief list of Republicans who do not favor cutting Social Security.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Johnson denies President Biden’s claim that Republicans want to cut Social Security. But after saying this he then called Social Security a “legalized Ponzi scheme” and says that Congress should no longer automatically pay Social Security benefits each year but rather decide each year whether to pay them and how much the benefit should be. “That doesn’t mean putting on the chopping block,” Johnson told local radio. “That doesn’t mean cutting Social Security. But it does mean prioritizing lower priority spending.”
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT): Mike Lee also denies President Biden’s claim that Republicans want to cut Social Security. But running for Senate in 2010 he told supporters: “It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it.”
Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA): Steve Scalise also denies President Biden’s claims that Republicans want to cut Social Security: But just late last year Scalise supported the proposed budget of the Republican Study Committee which, according to Politico, “rais[es] the eligibility ages for each program, along with withholding payments for individuals who retire early or had a certain income, and privatized funding for Social Security to lower income taxes.” After the State of the Union, Scalise said Biden’s claims have been “inaccurate for a long time,” by which he presumably means ten weeks. But even while insisting the President was lying he endorsed yet more cuts. “We want to strengthen Social Security by ending a lot of those government checks to people staying at home rather than going to work.” See, there's no reason a well trained 80 year old can't park his wheelchair next to the entrance of Walmart and say hi to people coming in.
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL): In his official agenda for 2022 Republican Senate candidates, Scott proposed sunsetting (i.e., ending) every federal program, including Social Security and Medicare, after five years.
Bush tried to privatize Social Security in his second term, turning it into a giant 401(k) where people can lose everything with one bad investment. Obama tried to do a grand bargain with Republicans, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and learned that the only thing more important to Republicans is not taxing the wealthy.
The granddaddy of modern conservatism, Ronald Reagan, once called Social Security and Medicare the end of freedom in America.
Republicans absolutely want to gut Social Security and Medicare, but they want someone else's fingerprints on it.

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