Congress can take away your entitlements

I’d like to add something to my Washington Examiner colleague Conn Caroll’s blogpost noting that there is no such thing as “mandatory spending” under Obamacare. He points out that Congress could at any time stop such spending by passing a law including the phrase, “notwithstanding any other law or regulation.”

Most Americans may not realize it, but this is also true of “entitlement” programs like Social Security. Under current law outlays continue without an annual appropriation passed by Congress. But Congress could change that.