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The Byron York Show

Biden at his worst in DC's latest BS battle

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One of the most commented-upon moments of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address happened when Biden accused some Republicans of wanting Medicare and Social Security to "sunset." In other words, Biden said, those Republicans want Medicare and Social Security, the twin foundations of the safety net for the retired, to go out of existence.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the no-chick chat podcast, we like to get right

0:08.3

into it.

0:09.3

And what we're going to get into today is, we'll call it Joe Biden at his worst.

0:16.2

And that is worst in the latest, newest, oldest BS battle in Washington.

0:25.1

Okay, I'll explain.

0:27.8

One of the most commented upon moments of the state of the Union address happen when

0:32.7

Biden accused Republicans, some Republicans, of wanting to sunset Medicare and Social Security.

0:40.8

Now, in other words, sunset, he wants Medicare and he said those Republicans want Medicare

0:47.2

and Social Security to go out of existence.

0:50.4

These are the twin foundations of the safety net for retired Americans and Republicans

0:56.4

according to Biden, want to get rid of them.

1:00.1

That's it.

1:01.1

God.

1:02.1

Now, the weird thing about what Biden said was that just the day before, I mean, literally

1:08.9

the day before Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, gave a much-watched speech in which he declared

1:16.4

that, quote, cuts to Medicare and Social Security are off the table.

1:25.0

Seems kind of clear.

1:26.0

We're talking about the anticipated negotiations over debt ceiling.

1:32.4

And McCarthy clearly anticipated how Biden would attack in these debt ceiling negotiations.

1:40.3

And he wanted to make sure that as these attacks came, that the House Republican position

1:45.9

would be clear, no cuts to Medicare, no cuts to Social Security.

1:52.4

Okay.

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