Republicans in Congress are not of like mind about raising the Social Security retirement age, let alone publicly pushing the controversial idea during an election year. Democrats, practiced for decades with “third rail” politics, hope the GOP will walk right onto thin ice with the electorate.
Republicans pushing reforms to Social Security argue that raising the retirement age would not cut benefits and would be phased in slowly so as not to affect people near retirement age.
But others in the party warn that talking about delaying Social Security benefits in an election year is political malpractice and would give Democrats a golden opportunity to accuse GOP candidates of wanting to cut Social Security.
