NEW AUDIO: Kevin Coughlin Calls GOP Tax Scam “A Win” and Suggests It Doesn’t Make *Enough* Cuts

In a radio interview yesterday, Kevin Coughlin called the GOP Tax Scam that jeopardizes health care for more than 31,500 Northeast Ohioans “a win,” before suggesting that the bill could have made *even more* cuts.

Earned benefits-cutting enthusiast Coughlin said the bill was “not everything that you want” but that there will be another “opportunity to get another win down the road” – echoing other Washington Republicans who are eyeing even more cuts to health care in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

Listen for yourself: 

HOST: “What are your thoughts on the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’? Do the benefits outweigh the cons?”

COUGHLIN: “It’s not, it’s not everything that you want, it’s not the win that everyone wants, but it is a win. […] And then there will be an opportunity to get another opportunity to get another win down the road. So I would say to my friends in DC, take the win, take the win and move on.”

Reminder of Coughlin’s long record of support for cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security:

• For more than a decade, Coughlin has been trying to end Medicare as we know it and hack up Social Security.
• Coughlin has long advocated for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, including but not limited to: converting Medicare into a voucher program, raising the eligibility age, and capping “spending in such a way that cuts to Medicare and Social Security would […] be unavoidable.”
• Coughlin said “there have to be entitlement reforms” and “benefits that people get are going to be cut.”
• Coughlin said “anyone with eyes” wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.

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