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Suddenly concerned about the growing national debt now that corporations have secured access to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/26/looting-america-big-corporations-progressives-appalled-senate-unanimously-passes" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">trillions of dollars in Covid-19 bailout funds</a> with little oversight, Trump administration officials are reportedly considering several proposals purportedly aimed at reducing government spending—including a pair of plans that would provide Americans with cash payments in exchange for delays or cuts to their Social Security benefits.In addition to weighing a push for automatic federal spending cuts that would take effect once the economy rebounds from the coronavirus crisis, Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/10/top-white-house-advisers-unlike-their-boss-increasingly-worry-stimulus-spending-is-costing-too-much/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported</a> Sunday that top White House economic officials are “exploring a proposal floated by two conservative scholars that would allow Americans to choose to receive checks of up to $5,000 in exchange for a delay of their Social Security benefits.”Senior administration officials have also “discussed the ‘Eagle Plan,’ a 29-page memo that called for an overhaul of federal retirement programs in exchange for upfront payments to some workers,”  according to the Post. “The proposal calls for giving Americans $10,000 upfront in exchange for curbing their federal retirement benefits, such as Social Security.”The “Eagle Plan” was crafted by a State Department official close to President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who forwarded the proposal to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Art Laffer, a conservative economist and Trump adviser, told the Post that he supports the proposal."They’re calling this monstrous idea the ‘Eagle Plan’ but it should be called the ‘Work ‘Til You Die Plan,'” <a href="https://twitter.com/SSWorks/status/1259565538281492480" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted</a> progressive advocacy group Social Security Works. “The only reason to support it over simply sending people $2,000/month is to undermine our Social Security system.”...<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</div>