"Vulnerable House Republican warns against benefit cuts [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If this were a better world, the "Republican"-controlled Houses would be supporting PDJT47 to eliminate the personal income tax by proposing an amendment to the Constitution to the states to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments.
After those amendments are gone, the states would find new revenues to run their own social spending programs as the Constitution's drafters had intended.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
As a side note to the states running their own social spending programs, consider that it is easier for voters to recall corrupt state lawmakers from office than it is to get corrupt federal lawmakers out of office.
When are Republicans going to learn how to sell/market the clean-up of government?
Example:
When we find and eliminate the waste and fraud in this program, we are going to give the recipients of the program a 10% increase in benefits. That should help cover the inflation the Democrat Party heaped on you.
Instead of:
When we find and eliminate the waste and fraud in these programs, we are going to give our buddies huge tax cuts and taxpayer $ while continuing to destroy the middle class as our off-shoring didn’t quite do the job.