On National Senior Citizens Day and the third day of the Democratic National Convention, we are shedding light on NVGOP candidates’ extreme Project 2025 agenda that would be detrimental for our seniors. Nevada is home to over a half-million seniors. That’s a half-million Nevadans that would lose out on a lifetime of hard work and contributions to these vital programs.
Extremist Sam Brown has made it very clear: he praised an extreme plan that would completely phase out Social Security and Medicare in five years, calling it a “roadmap for a better America.” Brown has made it abundantly clear that he supports the Republican plans to cut trillions of dollars from federal funding, more specifically, “designed to cut funding or end entirely social programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.” He even called the new law to lower prescription drug costs, which caps insulin costs at $35 per month for seniors and gives Medicare the power to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices, a “big loss for the American people.”
Brown’s Republican colleagues are unfortunately no different. NV-03 candidate Drew Johnson is engaged in an all-out-war on seniors, calling Social Security a “failed policy” that turns beneficiaries into a burden on our economy. He said that anyone who relies on Social Security for their retirement is not a “responsible adult,” rather they are a “socialist suckling off the teat of gov’t.” One of his key priorities is raising the retirement age and eliminating Social Security entirely, or, as he likes to code it, “making the program solvent.”
Nevadans can’t trust NV-01 extremist Mark Robertson to protect their hard earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security. Robertson backed a budget amendment that would subject Medicare and Social Security to “potentially deep cuts” while pledging to “develop entitlement reform” that would endanger the benefits that Nevadans have earned.
And seniors won’t forget Joe Lombardo’s veto of AB298, which would have capped rent increases for seniors, who often live on fixed incomes.
“Nevada Republicans’ slate of extremist candidates threaten to sell Nevada seniors out to the highest bidder and slash the programs that hardworking Nevadans have spent their lives contributing towards,” said Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado. “Where Democrats have made it a point to protect Social Security and Medicare, Republicans continue to show how out of touch they are with Nevadans with extreme agendas to rip benefits away from seniors that they earned.”
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