WH Budget Chief: " I Hope Fewer People Get Social Security Disability Insurance" [View all]

[Stuart G]

Source: Talking Points Memo:

By Matt Shuham, Published May 23, 2017:12:55 pm

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he hoped fewer people received Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as a result of President Donald Trumps 2018 budget proposal, suggesting that some SSDI recipients were not really disabled.

He said the proposal was the definition of compassionate: a compassion that is balanced between the people who get the benefits and the people who pay them.

Trumps budget proposal, though widely disregarded by congressional appropriators, would cut $31.4 billion from SSDI over 10 years, according to the Washington Post.

I recognize that hes going to be saving Social Security Retirement, but hes not saving Social Security Disability Insurance, which benefits more than 10 million Americans, NBCs Peter Alexander told Mulvaney in a press briefing Tuesday, pointing to Trumps repeated campaign promises not to cut Social Security. So is the President keeping his promise on that program


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This is one of the most insensitive things ever said about disabled. Clearly this asshole has never had to get disability. I know a number of people who have had to and it is very difficult to get. This is.....has been...and always will be the republican position on the poor, disabled, and those unable to work.

The people who pay them." .........secret language for... the rich...Asshole is saying "we rich should pay less to the poor and disabled....Also....implying that there is ..cheating going on......

He defines the republicans, now and forever.
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