Aug 13, 2012 ... Paul D. Ryan's talk of shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job  creators” will do nothing to reverse the nation's economic decline and ... Yet the  supposedly courageous Ryan plan would not cut one dime over the next decade  from the $1.3 trillion-per-year cost of Social Security and Medicare.
Dec 17, 2016 ... Unlike Mulvaney and many conservatives in Congress, Trump did not embrace  massive changes to Medicare and Social Security and specifically rejected ...  However, he told CBS's "Face the Nation" last year he could vote for raising the  debt ceiling, provided that "action fixes the reason we have a debt ...
Aug 28, 2017 ... During his populist run for the White House, Trump had vowed to leave Social  Security and Medicare alone. But Trump had also vowed to rein in America's  national debt, which Mulvaney didn't think was possible without reining in the two  biggest chunks of the federal budget. So Mick the Knife brought a cut ...
1 day ago ... "We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you  tackle the debt and the deficit," Ryan said during an interview on Ross  Kaminsky's radio show, The .... And not only is all of that true, but Social Security  and Medicare are self-funded and add not one thin dime to the deficit.
Jan 24, 2013 ... Eric on Jazz at Lincoln Center and Reed on reining in defense spending.
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt."