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By Andrew Taylor
 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s re-election has stiffened Democrats’ spine against cutting popular benefit programs such as those providing health care coverage and retirement benefits to the elderly. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to a deal that would skirt crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as [...]

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If there’s one thing I learned from the deficit reduction talks in Washington, it’s that I can’t take for granted that the entitlements my parents and grandparents have enjoyed will remain the same for my generation of baby boomers.

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Washington, DC, May 4 — With the national debate heating up on raising the debt ceiling, today AARP launched a new campaign to fight proposals that contain arbitrary limits, caps or triggers that would result in harmful cuts to critical Social Security and Medicare benefits that millions of Americans count on. The campaign includes a [...]

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By Juliet Williams SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told the Democratic faithful on Saturday that they must work to retake the House of Representatives next year or risk deep GOP budget cuts that would hurt seniors and poor people the most. The four-term senator from California, who faces re-election next year, told delegates [...]

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Social Security, Medicare and virtually every other federal program would face the budget ax under legislation unveiled Tuesday aimed at forcing Congress to dramatically cut spending over the coming decade.

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