White House 'Never Saw' Disability Cuts They Just Canceled
Axios celebrates the White House backtracking on a rumored plan to make Social Security disability harder to get. A “plan” that, according to the White House official, they “had not seen any such proposal” for in the first place. Conveniently, this official commitment to 'strengthening Social Security' comes only after the Washington Post spilled the beans in October about cuts that would affect
older Americans and were deemed the 'largest-ever' by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Funny how these 'non-existent' proposals only emerge into public view when they're about to be implemented, not when they're being drafted. So, the 'third rail' of U.S. politics remains untouched, for now. One might wonder if this commitment to 'protecting' Social Security would be so strong if there
weren't an election looming. Or if the public hadn't noticed the quiet efforts to gut crucial programs for the disabled, while corporate tax breaks remain sacrosanct. This wasn't a policy change; it was a public relations scramble, executed just before too many people realized what was happening.