Entitlement programs in the crosshairs to bolster country’s debt

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October 17, 2018 - 11:55 AM

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

On Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blamed Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for the coun­try’s $1 trillion deficit.

In President Trump’s first full fiscal year in of­fice, the U.S. budget deficit has ballooned by $779 bil­lion, or 17 percent, signal­ling U.S. spending is out of control.

So naturally, it’s the fault of programs that benefit the poor, sick and elderly — not the $82 billion increase in military spending, not the tax cuts that are expect­ed to add another $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, and certainly not that $70 billion wall.

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