We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to say, no, no, no, we don't do that.
Whitehouse recalls a moment of bipartisan agreement against cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
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