The Hill News

With the crisis over the debt ceiling looming, everyone wants to have a say in the proposed compromise. Now two female lawmakers â€" Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards (D) and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) have joined forces with other female Democratic colleagues in the House in writing a letter to President Obama to try to stop proposed changes to entitlements, which they claim will disproportionately hurt women.

According to Norton, “Social Security and Medicaid, as it turns out, are women’s issues.” And Edwards explains, “Social Security is their security … their groceries, their day-to-day expenses.”

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