Social Security, Medicare revamp top Obama’s list

Action is promised as budget office predicts $1.2 trillion deficit

By Jeff Zeleny and John Harwood / The Bulletin
January 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that overhauling Social Security and Medicare would be “a central part” of his administration’s efforts to contain federal spending, signaling for the first time that he would wade into the thorny....

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