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In response to Nikki Haley doubling down on her support for gutting Social Security and Medicare in a CNBC interview this morning, <\/em>DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNikki Haley was a champion for MAGAnomics before \u2018MAGAnomics\u2019 existed \u2014 calling to cut Social Security and Medicare and slash taxes for the ultra-wealthy. Make no mistake about it \u2014 Haley is just another vessel to ram through Donald Trump\u2019s economic agenda that would leave millions of Americans behind and line the pockets of her wealthy buddies and special interest donors. The American people have rejected this out-of-touch agenda time and time again, and they\u2019ll reject it next year no matter who stumbles out of the Republican primary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Haley today doubled down on her MAGAnomics agenda of cutting Social Security and Medicare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/a>: \u201cAre you on board with cutting entitlements in a big and meaningful way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley: \u201cSocial security goes bankrupt in 10 years, Medicare goes bankrupt in eight. Anyone that says they’re not going to take on entitlement reform means they’re going to go in and be president and leave the country bankrupt.<\/strong> You can’t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley has a yearslong record of being a proponent of devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cNikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U. N. ambassador who is planning to announce her own presidential bid this month, also praised Ryan\u2019s Medicare proposal at the time and said lawmakers should examine Medicare and Social Security spending to address federal debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018What they need to be doing is looking at entitlements,\u2019 Haley said in a 2010 interview on Fox News. \u2018Look at Social Security. Look at Medicaid. Look at Medicare. Look at these things, and let\u2019s actually go to the heart of what is causing government to grow, and tackle that.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley<\/a>: \u201cAny candidate that says they\u2019re not going to touch entitlements, means that they\u2019re basically going to go into office and leave America bankrupt. \u2026 We change retirement age to reflect life expectancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semafor<\/a>: \u201cAs governor of South Carolina at the time, Nikki Haley praised the [Paul Ryan] fiscal blueprint for \u2018trying to bring common sense to this world of insanity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley put the rich and powerful over working families as governor of South Carolina and now wants to go even further by making permanent Trump\u2019s tax breaks that handed the ultra-wealthy and big corporations billions in tax cuts while running up the deficit. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley<\/a>: \u201cWell I think what I\u2019d like to see is us go back to what Trump had under the tax cuts under him \u2026 I was there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiken Standard<\/a>: \u201cGov.-elect Nikki Haley, who takes office next week, campaigned on eliminating the state\u2019s corporate income tax.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augusta Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cState budget advisers predict eliminating South Carolina\u2019s corporate income tax over four years, as both Haley and House Republicans propose, would reduce state revenues by $61.6 million in the first year and $218.3 million annually when the phase-out is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not just Haley who is pursuing a MAGAnomics agenda \u2014 her 2024 GOP opponents are also coming after Social Security and want more tax giveaways for the wealthiest Americans. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump<\/strong> once backed raising the retirement age to 70 and called for privatizing Social Security which he called a \u2018Ponzi scheme\u2019 \u2013 two positions he has hammered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for supporting as a former member of Congress and congressional candidate. \u2026 but a CNN KFile review found Trump himself also once praised Ryan on Medicare, along with the 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, without praising their specific policy proposal, which called for similar changes to Ryan\u2019s plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cA CNN KFile review of comments from DeSantis’<\/strong> 2012 congressional campaign found he repeatedly said he supported plans to replace Medicare with a system in which the government paid for partial costs of private plans or a traditional Medicare plan. In one interview with a local newspaper, DeSantis said he supported \u2018the same thing\u2019 for Social Security, citing the need for \u2018market forces\u2019 to restructure the program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/strong><\/a> on whether his second term tax policies would echo those of his first term: \u201cYes, and I do even more taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis<\/strong><\/a> on whether he\u2019d keep Trump\u2019s tax rates in place: \u201cThe current rates that are due to expire, we want to keep those rates in place. We don\u2019t want to see increases in taxes. We definitely wanna see things like permanent bonus depreciation, making sure you have full expensing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Nikki Haley doubling down on her support for gutting Social Security and Medicare in a CNBC interview this morning, DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:  \u201cNikki Haley was a champion for MAGAnomics before \u2018MAGAnomics\u2019 existed \u2014 calling to cut Social Security and Medicare and slash taxes for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNEW: Nikki Haley Says She\u2019ll Slash Earned Benefits, Supports MAGAnomics Agenda - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-nikki-haley-says-shell-slash-earned-benefits-supports-maganomics-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-15T17:25:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-17T20:26:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-War-Room-Release-Logo-2.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-nikki-haley-says-shell-slash-earned-benefits-supports-maganomics-agenda\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-nikki-haley-says-shell-slash-earned-benefits-supports-maganomics-agenda\/\",\"name\":\"NEW: Nikki Haley Says She\u2019ll Slash Earned Benefits, Supports MAGAnomics Agenda - 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