Mitch McConnell ADMITS that Republicans want to destroy the social safety net

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may not have to face Kentucky voters himself until two years from now, although he recently proposed cutting the budgets of three core programs that are part of America's social safety net, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid:

McConnell said it was “very disturbing,” and driven by Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid spending. The solution to cutting the deficit, he concluded, is making “entitlement changes.”

Asked about the federal debt reaching $21 trillion and the deficit projected to top $1 trillion next year, McConnell did not mention tax cuts at all.

“It’s very disturbing, and it’s driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular,” he said. “Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid. That’s 70 percent of what we spend every year. The subject we were just discussing, the funding of the government, is about 30 percent of what we spend. There’s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully at some point here, we’ll get serious about this. We haven’t been yet.”

The major driver of the growing federal budget deficit under President Donald Trump is the loss of revenue to the federal government because of the tax cuts law that was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by President Trump. Period. Also, McConnell's claim that "there's been a bipartisan reluctance" to support cutting the social safety net is absolutely untrue; as recently as a few years ago, then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, proposed cutting Social Security benefits, which was never implemented due to criticism from people who understand that programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid serve a very important public purpose: provide for the well-being of Americans who aren't fully able to provide for their own well-being.

Mitch McConnell's attack against the social safety net proves that Republicans know that their tax scam completely failed, and, instead of admitting that tax cuts don't reduce budget deficits or grow the economy, they want to destroy the social safety net that provides for the well-being of millions of Americans, which would break decades-long promises that the federal government made to the American people and ruin the lives of millions of Americans who depend on the social safety net.