Obama Calls For Social Security Cut - And Buries It At The Very Bottom Of The Announcement

At 6 AM, The White House released a 6 page summary of The President's budget plan, which will seek to raise $580 billion in new taxes on the way to cutting the deficit by over $1.7 trillion over 10 years.

The most controversial item in the budget is a new measure of indexing growth of Social Security payments called a Chained CPI. Our Walt Hickey goes into the technical details here. Meanwhile, liberals are already launching a full-on assault against the idea.

Anyway, it's almost difficult to find the line about this idea in the summary.

It's buried at the bottom of the last page. It just says:

$230 billion in savings from using a chained measure of inflation for cost-of-living adjustments throughout the Budget, with protections for the most vulnerable.

Here's a partial screenshot of the last page.