News Now: If they take the majority, Republicans plan to slash Social Security and Medicare

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Wednesday November 02, 2022 · 11:57 AM PDT

2022/11/02 · 11:57

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 27: Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) holds up an article from the Sun Sentinel as he speaks alongside other Republican Senators during a press conference on rising gas an energy prices at the U.S. Capitol on October 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. Republicans are placing blame on the Biden Administration for the quickly rising gas prices this year as predictions estimate that heating costs this winter will rise significantly as well. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 2, 2022 · 7:37:44 PM +00:00 · Jen Hayden

NYT: Republicans, Eyeing Majority, Float Changes to Social Security and Medicare

Congressional Republicans, eyeing a midterm election victory that could hand them control of the House and the Senate, have embraced plans to reduce federal spending on Social Security and Medicare, including cutting benefits for some retirees and raising the retirement age for both safety net programs.

Prominent Republicans are billing the moves as necessary to rein in government spending, which grew under both Republican and Democratic presidents in recent decades and then spiked as the Trump and Biden administrations unleashed trillions of dollars in economic relief during the pandemic.

Politico: Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification

“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in a Dec. 31, 2020, email to Trump’s legal team. Chesebro contended that Thomas would be “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress.”

“I think I agree with this,” Eastman replied, according to copies of the eight emails obtained by POLITICO. The emails were part of a batch that Eastman had sought to withhold from the Jan. 6 select committee but that a judge ordered turned over anyway, describing them as evidence of likely crimes committed by Eastman and Trump.

NYT: CVS and Walgreens Near $10 Billion Deal to Settle Opioids Cases

CVS and Walgreens, two of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains, said on Wednesday that they had reached tentative agreements to pay about $5 billion each to settle thousands of lawsuits over their role in the opioids crisis.

Axios: Biden set to deliver major speech on democracy

The big picture: White House Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Anita Dunn said that the setting of Capitol Hill is important.

"Because on January 6th we saw violence geared towards subverting democratic processes there."

"It is an appropriate place to make these remarks tonight," she said.

"The threat of political violence ... it's something that unites almost all Americans and something we can all be united against," Dunn said.

Just when you think Herschel Walker can’t say anything more preposterous, the man comes along and does it again:

Herschel Walker on former POTUS Barack Obama: "My resume against his resume, I'll put it up any time of the day." pic.twitter.com/bRkwdDOTqa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2022

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