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Elijah Cummings: “What about the COLA? One of your most egregious proposals is to slash $50 billion worth of cost-of-living-adjustments…”

On the recordMay 15, 2018
What about the COLA? One of your most egregious proposals is to slash $50 billion worth of cost-of-living-adjustments from current retirees and their survivors. So you want to take from those who can least afford it and give to the richest among us. How is that fair?
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings questions the fairness of cutting cost-of-living adjustments for retirees.

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