House GOP’s Scalise Defends Medicare, Social Security Plans

  • Scalise says GOP seeks to avert funding shortfall for programs
  • Democrats have used threat of cuts in midterm campaign
Steve ScalisePhotographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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Representative Steve Scalise, the number two House Republican, defended his party’s approach to Medicare and Social Security, which has become a campaign issue ahead of US midterm elections in November.

It’s a mis-characterization to say the GOP plans to “cut” the programs, Scalise said on “Fox News Sunday.”