Snowe: No Medicare Or Social Security Cuts In Debt Deal
The follow up was that some corporate subsidies and tax loopholes might go. It’s also very arguable that even though she’s hated by tea partiers that Olympia Snowe has become the GOP figure with the most clout simply because she is willing to negotiate. To the average red state Republican Olympia is the Demoness of the TARP deal, so if there is bad news for Republicans it’s likely to filter through the one that’s already hated and shunned.
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) said she will not support any debt deal that includes cuts to the two social safety net programs, citing “strong bipartisan support.” “There are solvency problems with both programs. They have to be addressed but not as part of the debt reduction talks,” Snowe told the Bangor Daily News.