‘We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 160 Republican lawmakers that recently called for making cuts in Social Security.
Among other things, the group wants to raise the age at which a worker can collect full Social Security benefits to 70 from the current 67. (It used to be 65.)
And they want to use the threat of a default on the national debt as a means to _force “compromise.” As Hern put it, “Everybody has to look at everything.”
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, meanwhile, says he wants to “negotiate” cuts in spending as a condition for not crashing the American economy.