ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President
Joe Biden put Republicans on the defensive over their threats to
attack Social Security and Medicare during his State of the
Union speech last night, and will continue to call them out on
the issue, the White House said on Wednesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told
reporters traveling with Biden to Wisconsin that there was no
doubt that House Republicans had called for cuts to both
programs, despite their shouted denials on Tuesday.
"Many House Republicans have called for deeply slashing
Medicare, Social Security benefits," he said. "He called them
out in front of million and millions of Americans who were
watching ... He put them on the defensive again last night, and
he's going to call them out."
(Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Andrea Shalal; Editing
by Chizu Nomiyama)
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