(WASHINGTON) - With Fresh Capitol Hill Budget Battles on the Horizon, the Head of the Leading Labor Federation Issued a Blistering Warning to Unions' Democratic Allies on Monday (October 21st), saying the National AFL-CIO Would "Never Stop Working" to End the Political Careers of Democrats Who Cut Entitlement Programs.

"No Politician … I Don’t Care the Political Party … Will Get Away With Cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid Benefits.  Don’t Try It," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, According to Prepared Remarks for a Speech in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to the Draft, which was Supplied to HuffPost by the AFL-CIO, Trumka Stressed His Point for Democrats Who May Be Wobbly On The Issue: "This Warning Goes ‘Double’ for Democrats.  We Will Never Forget.  We Will Never Forgive.  And We Will Never Stop Working to End Your Career."

The AFL-CIO has Long Opposed Any Cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and the Labor Federation has Suggested in the Past that it Would Consider Pulling Support from Democrats Who Help Make Those Cuts Happen.  

But Trumka's Remarks on the Issue Amounted to a Far More Aggressive Threat: That the AFL-CIO Would Actively Use Its War Chest to Unseat Democrats On the Other Side of the Issue.

An AFL-CIO Spokesperson Clarified for HuffPost that the Federation Still Considers So-Called Chained CPI To Be Part of the Off-Limits Cuts to which Trumka was Referring.

A Chained CPI Inflation Index Would Alter the way Cost-of-Living Adjustments Are Made For Social Security Recipients, Slowing Increases and Reducing the Benefits for Seniors and the Disabled.  Many Democrats Have Shown an Openness Toward Chained CPI, and the Measure was Included in President Barack Obama's 2014 Budget, Where It Was Paired With Extra Money for the Elderly and Poor.

National AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers Told The Washington Post Last Week that Chained CPI was "the ‘Vampire’ of American Politics," saying that it "Keeps Being Shot Through the Heart and It Keeps Reviving."

Silvers told The Post the AFL-CIO Also Opposes a Form of Medicare Means Testing in the President's Budget.

It Isn't Clear Yet How Entitlement Cuts Will Figure in the Post-Shutdown Budget Talks, But It's Possible They'll Become Part of a New "Grand Bargain" Discussion on Capitol Hill.

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