The Hill News

One of the central complaints of President Obama’s proposed budget is that it doesn’t adequately address the fastest-growing component of the federal government: entitlement spending.

Gerald Seib at The Wall Street Journal noted that under Obama’s budget, “spending will rise 71 percent for Social Security, 72 percent for Medicare and 115 percent for Medicaid over the same period.”

But not all the frustration is pointed at the president. Conservative critics are equally concerned by the GOP’s flat response when it comes to tackling entitlement reform.

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