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hookrider, it looks, thanks to 2018 elections there will be some sort of a one year voter-hug as it looks immediate cuts have been averted ..
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2017/medicare-paygo-cuts-fd.html , yet, yep, Rubio and Ryan know what's meant to come

Marco Rubio told an audience in late November that tax reform is only one side of the Republican plan; the other is to reduce government programs: “You are still going to have a debt problem in the absence of spending cuts.”

Mr. Ryan sounded the same note, saying, “We’ve got a lot of work to do in cutting spending.” Mark Sanford, Republican of South Carolina, was even more blunt. Will the tax bill “help on the margin? Yes. Will it do as much as people advertise? Probably no,” he said. “The real conundrum that we still have to deal with if you really care about debt and deficit is spending.”

Republicans so far haven’t decided exactly what will get the ax. “We’re going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” Mr. Ryan recently said, specifying “health care entitlements” in particular. Orrin Hatch singled out “liberal programs” for the poor.

That could mean a lot of things, but Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are all at risk when so-called entitlements are on the cutting board.

from .. The Trojan Horse in the Tax Bill
Bryce Covert DEC. 20, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/republican-tax-bill-senate-house.html