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(NewsNation) — Former President Joe Biden returned to the stage Tuesday and warned that the Trump medication has enactment Americans' status benefits astatine risk.
"They’ve taken a hatchet to the Social Security Administration,” Biden said.
The erstwhile president suggested that the Trump medication wants to "wreck" Social Security truthful they tin "rob it."
NewsNation's Chris Cuomo questioned that strategy and pointed retired that portion Trump has messed with the programme wrongly — and spread misinformation astir it — the president has nary plans to chopped benefits.
"Cutting benefits would beryllium politically perilous, and Trump knows it," Cuomo said Tuesday. "Don't trot retired the eventual elder national to accidental otherwise."
Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, doesn't deliberation it's hyperbole to accidental Trump and his team, peculiarly Elon Musk, person enactment the programme astatine risk.
"They've already sacked 7,000 workers astatine Social Security, it's intolerable to get done connected the phones," Raskin told Cuomo connected Tuesday.
He added: "Your Social Security is not harmless with these guys successful charge."
O'Malley: Social Security is being 'dismantled' earlier our eyes
Martin O'Malley, erstwhile commissioner of the Social Security Administration nether Biden, says the bureau is presently being "dismantled, deconstructed and destroyed earlier our precise eyes."
"I bash judge that the DOGE radical and co-president Musk person already taken 90% of the actions indispensable to crater this bureau into a illness that volition interrupt benefits," O'Malley told NewsNation's Leland Vittert connected Tuesday.
Trump has repeatedly said helium won't interaction Social Security, Medicare oregon Medicaid benefits, but O'Malley thinks Americans person a "right to beryllium concerned."
