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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blamed spending on these services for the growing budget deficit and wants to rein them in:
McConnell eyes cuts to Medicare, Social Security to address deficit"It's very disturbing, and it's driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular: Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. That's 70 percent of what we spend every year," he said on Bloomberg News Tuesday when asked about the national debt. "There's been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully at some point here we'll get serious about this. We haven't been