The decision is the latest step in a bipartisan campaign to target entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare for massive cuts, including the reduction of benefit levels.
Bret Jaspers is a reporter for KERA. His stories have aired nationally on the BBC, NPR’s newsmagazines, and APM’s Marketplace. He collaborated on the series Cash Flows, which won a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting. He's a member of Actors' Equity, the professional stage actors union.
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