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Republicans are forcing Trump to touch the third rail Republicans are raising the deficit so high that it may trigger sequestration and mandatory cuts to Medicare By Heather Digby Parton Columnist ...

Until now, the “third rail” cliché (the metaphor being an electrified steel subway rail that kills any who touch it) was reserved exclusively for Social Security and Medicare.

Team Trump seems to have concluded that Social Security is no longer the “third rail of American politics ” — that they can touch it and live to tell the tale.

The program’s solid approval has earned it a nickname: The “third rail” of American politics because politicians touch it and their careers die.

As GOP eyes Medicaid cuts, Trump tries to avoid the political third rails The president has said his administration “won’t touch” entitlement programs. Past efforts to do so have backfired ...

Republicans could be touching the third rail on Medicaid The House-passed budget proposal pretty clearly requires cutting Medicaid, and that’s a big political problem.

Scores of data - and plenty of history - reinforce how politically dicey that could be. Americans hate entitlement cuts, and Republicans would seem to be in the process of handing Democrats a ...

Trump can do somersaults on the third rail now and it can't hurt him at all. His party is another story, but he doesn't care about them either." ...

He knows a third rail when he sees one. And if there's one issue that differentiated Trump from other Republicans from the minute he came down that golden escalator it's his promise to preserve ...