Biden tried it.
He will revisit this again when working across the aisle with republicans. A leopard doesn't change it's spots. Joe Biden Admits He Was Willing To Cut Social Security As Part Of Budget Talks. ......President Obama shut this shit down with joe and the republicans.
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted on Sunday night that “everything was on the table,” including Social Security cuts, during bipartisan budget talks in which he participated. In a one-on-one Democratic presidential debate in Washington, Biden accused Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) of airing TV ads that inaccurately claimed Biden had supported cuts to Social Security benefits. It sparked a prolonged exchange between the two in which Sanders pointed to times that Biden had either voted for or voiced support for cuts to the program.
“You were in the Senate for a few years, time and time again, talking about the necessity ― with pride ― about cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting veterans programs,” Sanders said. Biden inaccurately argued that he had never cast votes for legislation that would have cut Social Security. But he also conceded that “everything was on the table” during deficit-reduction talks he had taken part in, an apparent reference to negotiations with Congress when he was second-in-command in the Obama administration.
“What is true is in terms of the negotiations that were taking place, how to deal with the deficit, everything was on the table,” Biden said. “I did not support any of those cuts in Social Security or in veterans [benefits].” Sanders, sensing a vulnerable moment, interjected.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa ― ‘everything was on the table’: All right, you’re right, you just said it ― including cuts to Social Security and veterans,” Sanders said.
Those talks fell apart, but they stand as a testament to Biden’s prominent role in the Obama administration’s ultimately unsuccessful, multi-year quest to strike a fiscal “grand bargain” with Republicans.
In particular, then-President Barack Obama, with Biden at his side, dangled the prospect of a more modest cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security, veterans benefits and other programs in exchange for potential new revenue and cooperation on other items. The resistance of ultra-conservative Republicans helped spike those talks, but Sanders is correct in noting that progressive protests he helped lead generated pressure from the left as well.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-...esidential-primary_n_5e6ee248c5b6bd8156fa249e
He will revisit this again when working across the aisle with republicans. A leopard doesn't change it's spots. Joe Biden Admits He Was Willing To Cut Social Security As Part Of Budget Talks. ......President Obama shut this shit down with joe and the republicans.
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted on Sunday night that “everything was on the table,” including Social Security cuts, during bipartisan budget talks in which he participated. In a one-on-one Democratic presidential debate in Washington, Biden accused Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) of airing TV ads that inaccurately claimed Biden had supported cuts to Social Security benefits. It sparked a prolonged exchange between the two in which Sanders pointed to times that Biden had either voted for or voiced support for cuts to the program.
“You were in the Senate for a few years, time and time again, talking about the necessity ― with pride ― about cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting veterans programs,” Sanders said. Biden inaccurately argued that he had never cast votes for legislation that would have cut Social Security. But he also conceded that “everything was on the table” during deficit-reduction talks he had taken part in, an apparent reference to negotiations with Congress when he was second-in-command in the Obama administration.
“What is true is in terms of the negotiations that were taking place, how to deal with the deficit, everything was on the table,” Biden said. “I did not support any of those cuts in Social Security or in veterans [benefits].” Sanders, sensing a vulnerable moment, interjected.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa ― ‘everything was on the table’: All right, you’re right, you just said it ― including cuts to Social Security and veterans,” Sanders said.
Those talks fell apart, but they stand as a testament to Biden’s prominent role in the Obama administration’s ultimately unsuccessful, multi-year quest to strike a fiscal “grand bargain” with Republicans.
In particular, then-President Barack Obama, with Biden at his side, dangled the prospect of a more modest cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security, veterans benefits and other programs in exchange for potential new revenue and cooperation on other items. The resistance of ultra-conservative Republicans helped spike those talks, but Sanders is correct in noting that progressive protests he helped lead generated pressure from the left as well.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-...esidential-primary_n_5e6ee248c5b6bd8156fa249e
