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