This article is from April of 2022. That’s what causes confusion about what might happen in the future versus what’s already happened.
Going forward in 2023, one idea that’s been floated by some Republicans in the House is that an increase in the debt ceiling should be tied to cuts in Social Security. Cutting benefits to current recipients is deemed unfeasible, so the idea is instead a further increase in the retirement age. My guess is that the whole Republican caucus won’t go along with this, but who knows.
Gotcha. I was simply responding to the fact that according to the SS Website, it’s already 67 for anyone born in 1962 or after. So that would mean an increase to 67.5, 68, etc..
The Republicans would be smart (they’re not, let’s not think they are) to go after the low hanging fruit first: foreign aid, medicare/medicaid fraud that’s estimated in the tens of billions annually, duplicative spending and a full forensic audit of the Federal Budget and declaring a moratorium on immigration (followed by deporting the 5m+ that have crossed in the past few years) and eliminating all the spending on these criminal, illegal aliens.
Do that, show success and then start talking cuts elsewhere. Otherwise, they’re all just blowing smoke up our backsides and wasting our time.