Trump's campaign goes into damage-control mode after he suggests cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits

[Rogue Valley]

Trump's campaign goes into damage-control mode after he suggests cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits

Donald Trump may've handed Joe Biden campaign gold during a call-in to CNBC's "Squawk Box" by suggesting cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare.

www.businessinsider.com

3.11.24
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.

Biden seized upon Trump's remarks 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."

To all retirees, senior citizens, and working Americans who have been putting part of their paycheck money into these programs for most of their lives.....

Donald Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. He intends to cut your Social Security and Medicare benefits if he wins the 2024 presidential election!

As always, Trump (convicted of massive fraud) only cares for himself and not the American people. Trump is outright telling you that he intends to steal your money and, no doubt, give it to the wealthy via special tax breaks (like he did in 2017).

Vote for Joe Biden. He will protect our Social Security and Medicare programs!

 

[Winston]

Been obvious for yonks…

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

Won't matter
. Trumpsters will cut their own throats to stick it to the Libs... Their families, religion, finances, SS. health, etc... Don't matter to them... It's all about hating Dems/libs is all that matters..

Hell fought against a vaccine and they died from Covid... They'd easily drink the kool-aid...

What a cult..

 

[Napoleon]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

It could easily be fixed with a couple of tweaks... But the Republicans don't want to fix it, they want to kill it.

But many on SS still vote Republican.. What a cult..

 

[Winston]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

Trump should campaign on that

 

[Winston]

It could easily be fixed with a couple of tweaks... But the Republicans don't want to fix it, they want to kill it.

But many on SS still vote Republican.. What a cult..

Many are idiots. You could ask them if they support cuts to Social Security, have them say no, warn them not to vote for Republicans because they will cut SSC, and they will still go vote for Republicans. They will also blame the Democrats when their SSC checks are smaller. GOP Politicians know Fox does their dirty work for them by fomenting the hatred they ride into office on

 

[poweRob]

Trump's campaign goes into damage-control mode after he suggests cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits

Donald Trump may've handed Joe Biden campaign gold during a call-in to CNBC's "Squawk Box" by suggesting cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare.

www.businessinsider.com

To all retirees, senior citizens, and working Americans who have been putting part of their paycheck money into these programs for most of their lives.....

Donald Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. He intends to cut your Social Security and Medicare benefits if he wins the 2024 presidential election!

As always, Trump (convicted of massive fraud) only cares for himself and not the American people. Trump is outright telling you that he intends to steal your money and, no doubt, give it to the wealthy via special tax breaks (like he did in 2017).

Vote for Joe Biden. He will protect our Social Security and Medicare programs!

It's the 2nd central tenent of the GOP right behind tax cuts for the rich. No matter how much they lie about not wanting to do it over so many decades now.

 

[Phys251]

Trump's campaign goes into damage-control mode after he suggests cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits

Donald Trump may've handed Joe Biden campaign gold during a call-in to CNBC's "Squawk Box" by suggesting cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare.

www.businessinsider.com

To all retirees, senior citizens, and working Americans who have been putting part of their paycheck money into these programs for most of their lives.....

Donald Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. He intends to cut your Social Security and Medicare benefits if he wins the 2024 presidential election!

As always, Trump (convicted of massive fraud) only cares for himself and not the American people. Trump is outright telling you that he intends to steal your money and, no doubt, give it to the wealthy via special tax breaks (like he did in 2017).

Vote for Joe Biden. He will protect our Social Security and Medicare programs!

Makes you wonder why any senior citizen would ever vote Republican.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

Yeah I have friends in upstate NY.. They have little.. The economy up there is in the toilet... So they get food stamps,, welfare, SS, ACA, etc.. But they watch FOX daily and scream about the evils of socialism programs... Even though they are getting state and Fed help.. Without that help they'd be dead.. Most are Trumpsters..

Can't fix stupid.. What a cult..

 

[Bodecea]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

And there's the worship.

 

[Ikari]

Would someone PLEASE think of the Billionaires!

 

[Bodecea]

Makes you wonder why any senior citizen would ever vote Republican.

Or any self- respecting vet.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Makes you wonder why any senior citizen would ever vote Republican.

Unless they are the wealthy, I have no idea why anyone would vote for Trump/Republiacans.

They refuse to fund border security, are banning abortion and restricting IVF in red states, refuse to impliment sensible controls on assault rifles, they cater to the wealthy, they are removing voting and marriage rights, they are empowering Vladimir Putin (a war criminal), they want to leave NATO and abandon Ukraine, their presidential candidate Trump is under 91 indictments in 4 different jurisdictions, Trump has been found liable for sexual assaut and defamation, Trump says he will wreak havoc on our system via his retributions, says he will build massive deportation camps, they want to defund the FBI and the DoJ, fire 54,000 civil servants, it just goes on and on and on....

and they so badly want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, and every federal program that helps the very poor and children.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Yeah I have friends in upstate NY.. They have little.. The economy up there is in the toilet... So they get food stamps,, welfare, SS, ACA, etc.. But they watch FOX daily and scream about the evils of socialism programs... Even though they are getting state and Fed help.. Without that help they'd be dead.. Most are Trumpsters..

Can't fix stupid.. What a cult..

There's also the complete lack of awareness of how rural areas require state intervention to maintain because if left to the free market model, many of these places would collapse because of there being low demand. Hospitals are probably the clearest examples of this, since many in rural areas have been shutting down.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

We are NOT going to cut Medicaid or Social Security.

People have been paying into it for many years. They are not going to lose it because the GQP wants to take it away.

This is yet another good reason to make absolutely certain no republican is ever elected again.

 

[Kelby]

Won't matter
. Trumpsters will cut their own throats to stick it to the Libs... Their families, religion, finances, SS. health, etc... Don't matter to them... It's all about hating Dems/libs is all that matters..

Hell fought against a vaccine and they died from Covid... They'd easily drink the kool-aid...

What a cult..

These are the types we're dealing with:

 

[Allan]

There are plenty of good reasons to cut and modify social security whether progressives want to admit it or not.

It's called an "entitlement" for a reason. People pay into the funds specifically for the guaranteed benefit at retirement.

Like all insurance plans adjustments can be made to the contributions going forward to fully fund the plan.

But the benefit must not be cut.

 

[Allan]

Trump should campaign on that

Seems like he is, involuntarily.

 

[Mycroft]

Trump's campaign goes into damage-control mode after he suggests cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits

Donald Trump may've handed Joe Biden campaign gold during a call-in to CNBC's "Squawk Box" by suggesting cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare.

www.businessinsider.com

To all retirees, senior citizens, and working Americans who have been putting part of their paycheck money into these programs for most of their lives.....

Donald Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. He intends to cut your Social Security and Medicare benefits if he wins the 2024 presidential election!

As always, Trump (convicted of massive fraud) only cares for himself and not the American people. Trump is outright telling you that he intends to steal your money and, no doubt, give it to the wealthy via special tax breaks (like he did in 2017).

Vote for Joe Biden. He will protect our Social Security and Medicare programs!

As usual, the spin and nonsense is rampant among the Trump haters.

The fact is, what Trump said is a good thing...

"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 didn't say WHAT kinds of cuts, so that allows the Trump haters to fill in with whatever THEY want to say and make it sound like Trump said it.

And then you get people like the OP, spouting off with unrelated and irrelevant nonsense to justify HIS outright lies about Trump.

Seriously, this thread is nothing but a Trump hating hit piece and needs to be treated accordingly...

Thread dismissed.

 

[Allan]

As usual, the spin and nonsense is rampant among the Trump haters.

The fact is, what Trump said is a good thing...

"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 didn't say WHAT kinds of cuts, so that allows the Trump haters to fill in with whatever THEY want to say and make it sound like Trump said it.

And then you get people like the OP, spouting off with unrelated and irrelevant nonsense to justify HIS outright lies about Trump.

Seriously, this thread is nothing but a Trump hating hit piece and needs to be treated accordingly...

Thread dismissed.

Thread dismissal dismissed.

 

[j brown's body]

As usual, the spin and nonsense is rampant among the Trump haters.

The fact is, what Trump said is a good thing...

"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 didn't say WHAT kinds of cuts, so that allows the Trump haters to fill in with whatever THEY want to say and make it sound like Trump said it.

And then you get people like the OP, spouting off with unrelated and irrelevant nonsense to justify HIS outright lies about Trump.

Seriously, this thread is nothing but a Trump hating hit piece and needs to be treated accordingly...

Thread dismissed.

So what are "the lots of things you can do?"

He's so vague, it's virtually meaningless.

 

[Kelby]

As usual, the spin and nonsense is rampant among the Trump haters.

The fact is, what Trump said is a good thing...

"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,"​

Gibberish is a "good thing"?

He uses the same kind of sentence structure constantly...all you need to do is change the subject.

 

[Winston]

Fox News Boomers, there’s Trump again fighting for people like me

Trump.. and I would cut social security!

 

[j brown's body]

As usual, the spin and nonsense is rampant among the Trump haters.

The fact is, what Trump said is a good thing...

"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 didn't say WHAT kinds of cuts, so that allows the Trump haters to fill in with whatever THEY want to say and make it sound like Trump said it.

And then you get people like the OP, spouting off with unrelated and irrelevant nonsense to justify HIS outright lies about Trump.

Seriously, this thread is nothing but a Trump hating hit piece and needs to be treated accordingly...

Thread dismissed.

So what are the "lots of things you can do.?"

And how much money is it housing to save?

He's so vague it's virtually meaningless.