Gov. DeSantis punts on Social Security


He refuses to reform programs that everyone knows are unsustainable. Denialism will make it that much harder to sell modest benefit adjustments to voters in the future.

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November 10, 2023 - 4:10 PM

The Republican field for the presidential nomination has substantially narrowed. On Sunday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out, leaving Nikki Haley and Donald Trump to duke it out. In November, the field included, from left, former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Haley, DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS)

Donald Trump wasn’t on stage at the GOP debate on Wednesday, though he seemed to occupy Ron DeSantis’s mind. That would explain the Florida Governor’s punt on reforming entitlements that ruled out even gradually raising the Social Security retirement age.

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