Ron Johnson Aims to Put Social Security 'on the Chopping Block' White House Says

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Sen. Ron Johnson said that he believes Social Security and Medicare should be turned into discretionary spending programs.

If there are problems with Medicare and Social Security funding, experts say that they are problems concerning budget shortfalls.

stated that the best way to ensure continued funding for Social Security and Medicare is to lift tax caps on the wealthy.is subject to the Social Security tax. That means a person earning more than that is paying a far smaller tax rate than people making under that threshold — a person earning $1 million in income per year pays less than 1 percent of their income to the program, for instance., as Sen. Bernie Sanders said in June.

“Wisconsinites pay into Social Security through a lifetime of hard work, and they’re counting on this program and Medicare — but Ron Johnson just doesn’t care,”Johnson has made a number of controversial statements over the past year. A longtime denier of the climate crisis,

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