Yesterday, Politifact confirmed that Ron Johnson’s plans would threaten Social Security and Medicare — despite his efforts to back away from his out of touch record and agenda. Johnson has voted to weaken Social Security during his time in the Senate, and throughout his reelection campaign has repeatedly proposed making the programs discretionary spending, putting hundreds of thousands of retired Wisconsinites at risk of losing their income.
Unlike Johnson, Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, will fight to protect Social Security and Wisconsinites’ hard-earned benefits.
PolitiFact: Biden mostly on track that Ron Johnson wants annual approval of Social Security and Medicare
Barnes is hitting Johnson by pointing to his record and arguing the senator has left working people behind.
Of late, that includes criticism of a suggestion Johnson made in early August: that Medicare and Social Security, two immensely popular programs that affect millions upon millions of older Americans, should be subjected to annual budget deliberations.
On Aug. 2, 2022, Johnson told host Joe Giganti during an interview on his Regular Joe Show that he wants to turn everything in the federal budget into discretionary spending, including Social Security and Medicare, so programs could be evaluated and fixed.
Johnson has repeatedly said that he wants to put the programs under the stricter scrutiny of discretionary spending so that they remain financially solvent. Still, putting them up for an annual review would increase the chances they’d be cut, simply because there would be an opportunity every year to do so.
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