Biden team blasts McCarthy’s reneging on Social Security, Medicare

Remember how President Joe Biden got the whole Republican Congress to stand up and cheer for protecting Social Security at his State of the Union address? The White House sure does, and is reminding the media of that “important promise from congressional Republicans: that they would drop their years’-long pursuit of Medicare and Social Security cuts.”

Now that the debt ceiling deal is done, Biden’s team has taken the gloves off and is assailing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for going back on his word on Social Security and Medicare. In a memo to national media outlets, Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates blasts McCarthy for reneging via his plans for a revival of the so-called cat food commission, the Obama-era austerity commission that failed to do anything but cause headaches for Democrats seeking to preserve these programs.