Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday spoke out against Trump on Social Security after her 2016 presidential opponent appeared to open the door to entitlement cuts in a recent CNBC interview. He encouraged seniors to listen to the president’s remarks.
“Do you have seniors in your life? They should see this,” Clinton wrote on X, a post from the Biden campaign promoting a clip of Trump’s interview on CNBC on Monday. emphasized.
In the interview, Trump was asked to respond to his understanding that he shares the same views as Biden on how to handle entitlements, given his past pledges not to touch Social Security and Medicare.
“It looks like we have to do something, or we’re going to be stuck with debt at 120% of GDP forever,” said Joe Kernen, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He said this.
President Trump responded, “First of all, there’s a lot that can be done in terms of rights and reductions.”
The clip shared by the Biden campaign ends here. But Trump continued in the interview: “There is also very poor management of rights in terms of theft and mismanagement of rights.”
“There’s a huge amount of things that can be done, a lot of things that can be done. So I don’t necessarily agree with that statement,” Trump continued.
Mr. Biden has been keen to highlight the Republican threat to Social Security and Medicare, and was quick to pounce on Mr. Trump’s comments in a recent interview. In response to President Trump’s comments, he posted on X: “Not participating in my surveillance.”
“We will cut the Medicare and Social Security benefits that Americans have paid for their entire lives and give trickle-down tax benefits even more unaffordable to the ultra-wealthy,” White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. “Giving them more leeway is just a step backwards,” White House press secretary Andrew Bates said. He made the statement in an interview with CNBC.
The Trump camp is Said Trump specifically talked about “reducing waste.”
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