Sanders Slams GOP For Maneuvering to Slash Social Security and Medicare

Tom Price (R-Ga.), incoming Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has vowed to gut 'mandatory spending' on entitlement programs

by Sarah Lazare, staff writer

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday slammed the GOP for jockeying to slash Social Security and Medicare in the next Congress, denouncing the plan as a "moral outrage."

"At a time when poverty among seniors is increasing, and millions of elderly Americans lack sufficient income to buy the medicine or food they need, it would be a moral outrage for Congress to cut Social Security," declared Sanders in a statement released Friday. "In fact, instead of cutting Social Security benefits, we should be expanding them."