This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us, Alex Lawson, the executive director of Social Security

works. Social Security works.org, strengthened Social Security.org, Strengthen Social Security.

Or A law 202 on Twitter and S.S. Works or on Exer or whatever you call it.

Alex, welcome back to the program. Tell us about this panel. I mean what is Mike Johnson and what

what are the Republicans up to now? Death panel is what they're up to you know that's

what the White House has called it and they're right. Speaker Johnson and his buddy Jody Aerington

are advancing the formation of a smoky back room

where they can get together, figure out how to rob the American people by cutting

our earned Social Security benefits, and then ram that through Congress with no accountability to the American people in a fast-track package

with an up or down vote, no amendments.

As you know and your listeners know, this is the exact replay of the BS Commission back in the

Obama era. We have to fight with everything that we have to stop this from happening.

Some people don't think that it's real because they're not

hearing about it on too much of the corporate news,

but the corporate news want this to happen, Tom.

So it's like only truth tellers like yourself

who are pushing this story out there,

but you cannot get more real than what they just announced, which is a markup of the bill to create this

Smoky backroom to cut Social Security benefits. It's happening over the

objection of the vast majority of the American people we have

polling to show the vast majority of Republicans do not want to see a single penny of Social Security cut. You've heard me say this many times.

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