ICYMI: Pappas Delivers Remarks Calling Out House GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Increase Prescription Drug Costs

Last week, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) delivered the following remarks on the House floor, calling out his extreme Republican colleagues’ plan to raise the Social Security retirement age, cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, roll back savings on prescription drugs, and repeal $35 insulin for those on Medicare. View Pappas’s remarks here.

“Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise in opposition to the reckless budget proposal released this week by a group of House Republicans.

“This budget will cut Medicare, make health care more expensive, and undo the real progress that we’ve been making to lower prescription drug prices. It would also cut Social Security and raise the retirement age, forcing hardworking Americans to work even longer. 

“The only winners in this budget plan are the ultra-wealthy and the biggest corporations who get rewarded with huge tax cuts. This is backward. It’s wrong. And it’s something I’ll fight every step of the way. 

“New Hampshire seniors who have paid into Social Security and Medicare need to know that their earned benefits will be there for them when they retire. I remain committed to fighting to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, to lowering the cost of health care and prescription drugs for all Granite Staters, and Congress must make this a top priority.”

Pappas fought to pass historic legislation that finally allowed the government to negotiate for lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, limited the cost of insulin at $35, and capped out-of-pocket medical expenses for those on Medicare.