DENVER — While Colorado Republican Ken Buck continued to blast House leadership for passing the bipartisan debt ceiling bill, the congressman had some praise for Mike Pence's willingness to touch the third rail of politics: entitlements.
"If we want to save Social Security, save Medicare, save those programs, and reduce the debt and the trajectory we’re on, we’ve got to start working on those government programs," Buck said while headlining the Western Conservative Summit."Now, for the first time ever, I heard a candidate for president say we need to work on this, and that was Mike Pence on his town hall the other night.
He continued, adding,"And so as Republicans, we’re saying part of this answer needs to be [that] we raise the retirement age. We have longer life expectancy than we did 30, 40 years ago. Democrats are saying, well, this cap where you don’t have to pay into Social Security after [your first] $140,000 — that doesn’t work, so Democrats want to increase that. We call that a tax increase. We’re not for that. They don’t want to see that age raised, and so there’s a standoff.
With both parties committed to enhancing defense spending, which makes up half of all discretionary spending, the final debt ceiling deal only caps a minority of federal spending.
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