Boehner on Entitlement Reform: We’re Serious
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightIn a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) reiterated the GOP’s commitment to tackling the ballooning costs of entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Accounting for more than 60 percent of the federal budget, entitlement costs are the primary drivers of the national deficit. (By comparison, non-defense discretionary spending — the portion of the budget that congress is currently bickering over — accou...