Today, we're going to talk about Republican efforts to cut your Social Security Medicare

Medicaid and the pretty pathetic way they're trying to distract you from it.

I interviewed Senator Bernie Sanders about how to protect Social Security, his response

to Republican fear mongering about the army of 87,000 IRS agents, and how to get the government

to keep prescription drug prices down.

And I'm joined by Congresswoman Katie Porter to discuss her decision to run for the US

Senate, her response to calls for George Santos to resign, and whether there's a way for

a few Republicans to join with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

Man, who would have guessed that Republicans spending a week just trying to get a speaker

elected would be their high watermark?

We're now like a week into the GOP majority in the house and it turns out that Republicans

are prepared to make good on their promises to hold raising the debt limit hostage until

they're able to get cuts on earned benefits like Social Security Medicare and Medicaid.

Now, first off, I just want to explain here what this would mean.

This has to raise the debt limit to be able to pay or existing obligations.

Failing to raise the debt ceiling isn't some strategy to prevent new spending.

It just prevents us from actually paying for what we already spent money on.

If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we default.

That will not only create the US economy, it'll create the global economy, sink the US

dollar and crash markets worldwide.

So that's some background here.

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