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The House  has voted on a 'Balanced' Budget Amendment (BBA), which is nothing more than another Paul Ryan scheme to force dangerous cuts to our earned benefits, and enshrine those cuts in our constitution. its funds are kept separate from the rest of the federal budget to protect the American people’s earned benefits. The BBA would have mandated cuts to Social Security to pay for (among other things) the $1.5 trillion GOP tax handout to billionaires and corporations.But the failed vote shows that the problem in Washington goes much deeper than Paul Ryan whose legacy in Congress will be his repeated attempts to destroy Social Security and Medicare while providing massive tax handouts to billionaires and corporations. 233 members of Congress voted to steal Social Security’s $2.9 trillion surplus, and force automatic cuts. Shame on them. Here are their names: