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Q: an increase in payroll taxes on over $400,000 a year A: biggest threat is GOPs

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Q: an increase in payroll taxes on over $400,000 a year A: biggest threat is GOPs

#shorts On 3/7/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “The President — this announcement this morning on Medicare — largely paid for that extension through an increase in payroll taxes on those making over $400,000 a year. Can we expect, since the President has also made Social Security a key sort of plank of his economic plan, that we should see a similar increase in Social Security taxes?

KJP: So I’m not going to get into — we shared Medicare today … What we see right now is that, you know, the biggest threat to Social Security are Republicans. And you’ve heard them, you guys have covered them — what congressional Republicans have said, their relentless drive to — to cut these important programs

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Q: an increase in payroll taxes on over $400,000 a year A: biggest threat is GOPs

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#shorts On 3/7/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “The President — this announcement this morning on Medicare — largely paid for that extension through an increase in payroll taxes on those making over $400,000 a year

  • Can we expect, since the President has also made Social Security a key sort of plank of his economic plan, that we should see a similar increase in Social Security taxes
  • KJP: So I’m not going to get into — we shared Medicare today
  • What we see right now is that, you know, the biggest threat to Social Security are Republicans

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