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FACT CHECK: McCormick Supports Putting Social Security and Medicare on the Chopping Block

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PENNSYLVANIA – David McCormick supports putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block all to help his billionaire friends — and wants to repeal the law that lets Medicare negotiate drug prices. 
 

McCormick Wants to Cut Social Security and Medicare:

  • McCormick has supported putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.
    • McCormick: “So the path through this is […] a tightening of the belt […] And as I said, there’s entitlements and a number of other drivers of that.” [John Fredericks Radio Show, 11/16/23; 4:40]
  • McCormick said entitlements like Social Security and Medicare “aren’t sustainable” and that he doesn’t think children “are going to be able to live under the same entitlements that all of us here are.” [Daily Beast, 4/5/22]
  • McCormick said he wanted to roll back the law that capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month.
    • McCormick: “What happened under Biden with these huge, enormous pieces of legislation – the Inflation Reduction Act […] We got to roll that back.” [John Fredericks Radio Show, 10/3/23]

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