House GOP Using Omnibus Fight as 'Trial Run' for Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Critics Warn

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House GOP Using Omnibus Fight as 'Trial Run' for Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Critics Warn
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'MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power—using the deficit they created with irresponsible tax breaks for billionaires and greedy corporations as an excuse to gut Social Security and Medicare.'

"MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power," said one progressive watchdog.The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass a $1.

Leading up to the Senate's vote Thursday to approve the omnibus, dozens of House Republicans spearheaded by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas urged their colleagues in the upper chamber to "use every tool possible to kill this bill," raising well-worn complaints about the national debt and threatening to do all they can to obstruct ordinary congressional business in the next session.

"If any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage—including the Republican leader," Roy and 30 other House Republicans wrote in ato the Senate GOP on Wednesday.

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