https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cutting-medicare-social-security-benefits-2024-3 >In a Monday interview, Donald Trump suggested Social Security and Medicare benefits might be cut.
>The remarks sent his campaign immediately into damage control.
>Trump's comments were a political gift that Joe Biden immediately seized upon.
Donald Trump on Monday handed President Joe Biden a gift while calling in to CNBC.
When asked how the US could cut spending and his outlook on handling entitlements like Social Security and Medicare benefits, Trump suggested cuts could be made to the programs, which offer guaranteed financial support to retired and disabled workers.
"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do," Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen in a rambling response to the question that touched on the stock market, oil drilling, and his administration's response to the COVID pandemic.
He added: "I know that they're going to end up weakening Social Security because the country is weak," in an apparent suggestion that the Biden administration would make cuts to the program.
Trump's campaign quickly jumped into damage-control mode, sending out a press release saying that the former president's remarks had focused on "protecting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare" and that he "would get rid of waste and fraud."
But Biden seized upon Trump's remarks just as quickly, telling a crowd of voters in New Hampshire that Trump had said cuts to the programs were on the table. Biden vowed to protect the entitlements more than 70 million Americans rely on.
"I won't cut Social Security and I won't cut Medicare," Biden said, per CNN, adding: "I will protect and strengthen Social Security, Medicare and make the wealthy begin to pay their fair share."
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A representative for the Trump campaign told Business Insider in an emailed statement that the former president "delivered on his promise to protect Social Security and Medicare in his first term" and "will continue to strongly protect Social Security and Medicare in his second term."
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Biden vowed to protect Americans from any cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his budget proposal released on Monday, stating that the president will "reject any efforts to cut or undermine the Medicare or Social Security benefits that seniors and people with disabilities have earned and paid into their entire working lives."
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>>1277010 Don't Democrats ever wonder why publications like Business Insider lead Democrat?
Anyway, he said nothing about cutting benefits.
He did mention cutting bad management.
Now that's real urinalism.
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>>1277095 >There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting Clearly wants to cut it, not the first time he said it either.
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>>1277151 Democrat urinalists do these every election year.
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>>1277160 This doesn't really work so well when dems win every election year
i meant i'll increase medicare and SS
i meant i'll increase medicare and SS Wed 13 Mar 2024 04:28:14 No. 1277196 Report >>1277010 If there is a video of tRump saying this, Biden just got his ad to run against tRump
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>>1277171 That's why Republicans commit election fraud, or in the case of 2020, stage a coup.
my bones hurt, please dn't make me work longer tRump, i mean, you don't work
my bones hurt, please dn't make me work longer tRump, i mean, you don't work Wed 13 Mar 2024 10:07:52 No. 1277227 Report Quoted By:
>>1277196 The big mouth senile fool thought that he's say the quiet part out loud to appease the corporate right of the GOP.
Now his handlers goes into damage-control mode,sending out a press release saying that the former president's remarks had focused on "protecting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare" and that he "would get rid of waste and fraud."
"get rid of waste"
like increasing SS payments to 70+
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>>1277171 What propaganda? It works well on people who aren't paying attention.
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>>1277010 don't care. still voting for Orange Man
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>>1277235 Thankfully diehards don't decide elections
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When will you people get it? Trump isn't a liar and he isn't "Honest Don". He is a bullshitter. He mixes truth and lies every time he speaks because he honestly doesn't care if something is true or not. He may not even know if it's true or false.
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>>1277238 But enough about Democrat shills.
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>>1277212 What election fraud?
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>>1277251 1968
1972
1980
2000
2004
2016
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>>1277273 1968 (sabotaging peace negotiations with north vietnam)
1972 (watergate)
1980 (sabotaging release of the hostages in Iran)
2000 (florida)
2016 (russia)
both teflon dons got scratched by politicians
both teflon dons got scratched by politicians Wed 13 Mar 2024 14:05:14 No. 1277280 Report Quoted By:
>>1277274 They all it. Republicans just have a toe up on fascism.
Democrats tend to eat their own, hilliary is a master at tainting her opposition.
Although the tRump pee tape was quite evil.
Poor tRump, all he had to deal with was mafia and dirty real estate dealers.
Then he met the real nasty people, politicians.
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>>1277274 Gore likely lost Florida legitimately. But the way SCOTUS ended the recount was partisan BS.
Russia definitely influenced the election with disinfo, and continues to do so today. As does China. But I wouldn't call that Republican election fraud. Just run of the mill foreign election interference. At the end of the day, it's the responsibility of the electorate to be properly informed and vote accordingly.
The others are definitely legit, and the real problem is that the people most responsible are never held accountable. Just random low level pawns, if anyone at all.
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>>1277237 Nobody gets a say when the elections are rigged in the favor of this devilish system that only serves psychotic maniac billionaires living in a gated snake pit
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>>1277283 Nah, if they did a full recount Gore won.
Republicans knew this, this is why they started riots to physically assaulted election officials to stop the count.
I remember in 2020 when Republicans were all gathering around the Philly election center counting ballots and it was clear they were preparing to storm it to stop the ballot counting, but liberal activists got wind and all mobilized there to stop the attack since police had to move to and disperse everyone before violence broke out, foiling the Republican plot to steal the election in Pennsylvania for Trump.
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>>1277010 why the fuck would anyone vote for him then? do you want to work until you're 85?
