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Topic: cutting social security

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Trump wants to slash Medicare

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Another Social Security fiasco

Simon Maloy
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks as Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., listens, during the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN, Salem Media Group and the Washington Times at the University of Miami, Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (AP)

Trump skates on debate night

Simon Maloy
Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

McConnell's "bipartisan" flop

Simon Maloy
Alan Simpson, Ed Rendell, Erskine Bowles of Fix the Debt (AP/Alex Brandon/Carolyn Kaster/Alex Brandon)

Can Social Security be saved?

Michael Lind
Barack Obama speaks at a rally the night before election day, in Manassas, Va. on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

He wanted it all along

Eric Zuesse

Obama can learn from...Reagan?

David Sirota
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White House courts lefty press

Alex Seitz-Wald
Former Governor Ed Rendell, Senator Elizabeth Warren (APCarolyn Kaster/Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Blake Zeff

The Right still runs America

Amitai Etzioni

Obama's historic benefits flub

Michael Lind
Alan Simpson, Ed Rendell, Erskine Bowles of Fix the Debt (AP/Alex Brandon/Carolyn Kaster/Alex Brandon)

No-- Expand social security

Michael Lind
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How GOP views Social Security

Ike Brannon
Maya MacGuineas speaking to the National Press Club last year.

Social Security's media foe

David Sirota