Debt limit deal gives Washington a blank check

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : If you want to cut Social Security, be my guest.
53% : Overall government spending increased a whopping 40% in the past four years, from $4.45 trillion in 2019 to $6.21 trillion in 2023, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
50% : Republicans and Democrats agreed before beginning their negotiations not to touch so-called mandatory spending -- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
48% : For decades, lawmakers and presidents in both parties have ducked any serious talk about the three generally accepted solutions for shoring up the Social Security trust fund -- raising taxes, slowing the growth of benefits and raising the retirement age which is now 67 for people born after 1960.
47% :Social Security is the largest single expense of the federal government, currently about $1.2 trillion per year.
40% : The runaway train of federal spending didn't stop in January when the government hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion.

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