#shorts On 3/7/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “The President — this announcement this morning on Medicare — largely paid for that extension through an increase in payroll taxes on those making over $400,000 a year. Can we expect, since the President has also made Social Security a key sort of plank of his economic plan, that we should see a similar increase in Social Security taxes?

KJP: So I’m not going to get into — we shared Medicare today … What we see right now is that, you know, the biggest threat to Social Security are Republicans. And you’ve heard them, you guys have covered them — what congressional Republicans have said, their relentless drive to — to cut these important programs

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/1w8CL6v0d9o
Q: an increase in payroll taxes on over $400,000 a year A: biggest threat is GOPs