Mike Pence is NOT gonna be President….
Not with this point of view…..
Neither is Ron DeSantis who has also talked about cutting the benefits Donald Trump pledges to NEVER cut….
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that cuts to Medicare and Social Security should be “on the table for the long term,” differentiating himself from former President Donald Trump as he considers a run for the Oval Office.
“We’re looking at a debt crisis in this country over the next 25 years that’s driven by entitlements, and nobody in Washington, D.C., wants to talk about it,” Pence said on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
The future of the major entitlement programs is quickly shaping up as a battleground for the 2024 Republican presidential primary, particularly between early frontrunners: Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. That is happening against the backdrop of President Joe Biden using his State of the Union address to criticize GOP proposals to shrink the entitlement programs, including a since-amended plan by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., that would have put them at risk of termination every five years.
Trump has long positioned himself as a defender of Medicare and Social Security, and he is doing so again as he seeks a return to the presidency. While his annual budgets included proposals to reduce Medicare spending, they primarily targeted provider paymentsrather than benefits. His efforts to limit Social Security spending were aimed at cutting disability benefits, not checks for retirees.
“Under no circumstances will we allow anyone to cut Medicare or Social Security for our nation’s seniors,” Trump said in a speech to Club 47 in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday. “We’re not going to allow that. They paid in, and you can’t allow it and you shouldn’t allow it.”
Trump hopes to draw a sharp contrast with DeSantis, whom he singled out in a Truth Social post earlier this week: “Ron DeSanctimonious wants to cut your Social Security and Medicare,” Trump wrote….