'Not on my watch' -- Biden blasts Trump over suggested cuts to Social Security, Medicare

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Source: CNBC

Published Mon, Mar 11 2024 12:02 PM EDT Updated 23 Min Ago


President Joe Biden on Monday quickly slapped down Donald Trump’s suggestion in a CNBC interview that “there is a lot” that can be done in terms of cutting the government programs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“Not on my watch,” Biden said in a social media post on X in response to a video of Trump’s comment that was posted by his reelection campaign.

It was the latest quick response by Biden and his campaign to something said by the former president, who as the presumptive Republican nominee is on track to face Biden in November in a rematch of the 2020 election. The White House also issued a statement calling the idea of cutting Social Security and Medicaid “exactly backwards.”

Trump was asked Monday by CNBC’s Joe Kernen on “Squawk Box” if he had changed his “outlook on how to handle entitlements: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/biden-blasts-trump-over-social-security-medicare-cut-ideas.html

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[Lovie777]

1. And shithole's cult seniors will still vote for him...........................

and blame the Democrats for not saving them.

[lark]

19. My 81 year old R friend will not vote for tsf due to this.

She doesn't believe the other things about him, but she does get this and so won't vote for him. She won't vote for Biden either, but at least it's one vote tsf has lost due to his reich wing idiocy on Medicare and SS.

[dweller]

2. Another free ad

Run with it Joe

Wow that was fast …

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132215516

✌🏻

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[FredGarvin]

5. Like Roe v Wade

We all know that we are defenseless against Republicans.

Eventually they will gut SS and Medicaid.

[whathehell]

9. They will NEVER gut Medicare and Medicaid...

as long as there's a Democratic President in office and Millions of Senior Citizens in both parties loudly pushing back..
There's a reason it's been called "The Third Rail" of American Politics.

[IronLionZion]

6. Because debt to GDP is ruining people's lives somehow?

I bet your typical MAGA voter couldn't tell you how that ratio effects them.

When stock market and corporate profits and employment are at record highs, maybe Biden's job killing socialist policies are not the reason for the high costs of groceries and gas. "nobody wants to work anymore" in farming and food processing is probably not because migrants are stealing those jobs.

Tax these "job creators" since they created too many jobs.

[Raven123]

7. Yes. Rapidly respond. Don't give TFG's media a chance to wallk it back

[Warpy]

8. Raise the minimum wage until it is a living wage everywhere

(well, maybe not in NYC or most of CA, but everywhere else). That increases the contributions to SS and Medicare. No need to cut then, except rich pigs like TFG are wedded to the bullshit of neoliberalism that says keeping old people from starving is somehow a bad thing.

The richest are way past due for a diet.

[slightlv]

15. Tax -all- income,

earned or "unearned" as FICA. The Hedge Funders and Vulture Capitalists who never draw a "wage" but instead live off other forms of their "working" money should have every dollar taxed up to and including the same amount as the person who works at McDonalds. That's the quickest and fairest way I can see to ensure the solvency. Of course, it would be nice to strip that artificial "max" from the law, as well. While 100% of our income... at least, for most of us it's our entire income... they get away with paying very little or nothing at all.

We are suppose to have a fair and progressive tax system. That concept has been lost through the years by adopting loophole after loophole in favor of those with the money to buy the lawyers, financiers, and politicians who will support their cause. Meanwhile, we're kept at bay by having to worry about paying the monthly bills and eating. All of this adds up to neither fair nor progressive. Yet it IS a step towards their ultimate goal of a paying nothing at all in taxes of any kind, period. What did the Madame say? Taxes are only for the little people?

Gods... sometimes it seems like their whole purpose is to create (and then incite) class conflicts. You don't think they'd have a purpose with that, do you? (LOL)

[Cha]

10. Fuck TSF.

Thanks Biden!

[Hotler]

11. They will steal every penny if they take power. And will not stop there,

they'll steal everything in the government accounts and then go for the real estate and national park land. If it looks like we are going to go fascist, I would take every penny you have out of the US banks, may want to cash out of the stock market.

[Auggie]

12. Repeat this. Tell everyone. Spread it far and wide.

[bmichaelh]

13. Vote against self-interest

Some will vote against their self-interest.

I remember posters during the ACA debate that said: Government keep your hands off my Medicare.

The irony was lost on the holder of the sign.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Donald, why didn't you eliminate this waste during your four years?

[not fooled]

20. They couldn't find any

On Lawrence O’Donnell’s show recently, he went over red don’s history with SS during his time in office. The pukes looked for “fraud and waste” but couldn’t find any. Won’t stop pukes from lying about it now, though.

🙄

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. So are all the retirees at the villages independently wealthy?

Do they not need SS or Medicare? If that's the case why do they keep voting for assholes that want to take it away?

[Stuart G]

17. K AND R...no text.

[Aristus]

18. Mad respect, President Biden.

But I really fucking hate that slogan; "Not on MY watch!"

I know it's supposed to sound tough and determined. But it just sounds like the person only cares about failure if it can be blamed on him.