White House went into damage control Tuesday (sorta) about SSecurity

[allegorical oracle]

Story by Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)

On Monday, Musk told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, “So, the waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which is all of the—which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. So, that’s the big one to eliminate.”

Musk’s implication suggesting cuts to federal spending on government entitlement programs—the largest of which are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—went viral on social media.

On Tuesday, however, Donald Trump’s White House issued a press release saying that there were no plans to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid—while still defending Musk and targeting journalist Jake Sherman instead.

“The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” the statement said. “President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).”

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I’m not going to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,” Trump said Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Now, we’re going to get fraud out of there. We’re going to get the fraud out, and everybody wants us to get the fraud out, and, therefore, you will make it better.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/white-house-in-damage-control-mode-after-musk-talks-social-security-cuts/ar-AA1AJ26m

[Lovie777]

1. Stock Market on 3/12/2025 .............

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Citizens need to take to the streets. Republicans are coming after Social Security. They will gut it.

Same with Medicare and Medicaid.

[spanone]

3. He.Lies.All.The.Time.About.Everyting.

[getagrip_already]

4. They dont want to cut those programs.....

They want to gut them. Break them. Get rid of so many people and IT systems it simply wont work.

Then claim the only way to fix it is sell it off.

[allegorical oracle]

5. The full story is interesting. They're after Jake Sherman because they're nervous about

his work. The WH refers to Sherman as "Fake Sherman." The same thing happened back in Nixon's Watergate days when Woodward and Bernstein caught the scent and got on the trail. So the WH press release went out of its way to diminish Sherman's work.

Thing is, there is no way that the WH can say over and over and over again that SS etc. "won't be touched" at the same time the Muskrat's team is digging around for a small amount (one percent) of fraud and abuse. Can't have it both ways.

[Pisces]

6. They are liars!!! He won't touch today but what about 3 weeks from now

When he denies what he said. If our allies can’t trust him we can’t either. He reneged on trade deals he made, why should we trust anything out of his mouth

[dalton99a]

7. "Not today. I'll have Elon "Maximum Transparency" Musk do it when you're not looking"