Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie worked to cast himself in a different light from other Republicans on entitlement program policy in the hunt for the GOP presidential nomination.
“We have got to have this conversation,” Mr.said. “And other than me, nobody in this race is willing to talk about it, it’s ridiculous.”
Social Security benefits and other entitlement programs constitute about half of the federal budget. Cuts to those programs were front and center in the battle over the debt ceiling deal earlier this year. Republicans pushed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to include changes, like adding a subsidized, privatized
option and means-testing for Social Security benefits, into the package. However, the changes did not make their way into the final product.similarly proposed means-testing in his vision for changes to Social Security. That would mean that only people under a certain income threshold would be able to receive benefits from the program.
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