Of course, they're going to go after Social Security and Medicare. Balancing the budget was THE signature legislation of their whole midterm campaign. An 8-horse hitch of Budweiser horses wouldn't be able to stop them.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac

The first step in balancing the budget should be eliminating the 2 Bush tax cuts and Trump's multi-trillion dollar tax cut, all of which have immensely contributed to deficits and debt. You can almost time the massive rise in national debt to those tax cuts.

When Clinton left office we had $5 trillion in debt (thanks to Reagan's tax cuts), and left W a plan to have it paid off by 2006. When Bush left, the budget and national debt were more than twice as high. Trump's tax cut, another what wasn't needed, meant a 25% increase in national debt.

Why Republicans think you can slash revenue when you have debt to pay off is like someone with credit card debt cutting their working hours at the same time. You'd call anyone who did that a fool.