Trump Complicates GOP Desire To Cut Entitlements.
“Trump’s pugnacious messaging comes at a crossroads for the party internally, as a group of senators quietly meets about possible changes to endorse on Medicare and Social Security. And Trump’s tactics have some Republicans clamming up or endorsing more modest ideas aimed at ensuring the programs don’t go bankrupt, despite projections that both may be headed for insolvency in about a decade.”
The GOP is anxious to cut entitlements now that they are in control of the House of Representatives. Former president Trump, however, is not in lockstep with the current House majority and has never advocated for slashing the social benefits so many of his supporters rely on for income and healthcare coverage. Trump continues to have an inordinate ability to marshal his troops to his side of the debate and is rapidly becoming a thorn in the side of reform minded GOP deficit hawks.
