This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well, greetings here from Sheltered in place.

Tom Hartman here in my home in Portland, Oregon.

This is by Tommy Christopher.

Used to be a regular on our show in DC,

mediaite.com.

Tommy writes for mediaite.

Joe Biden was being interviewed by Channel 6, this is in Florida, I believe in Tallahassee,

Channel 6 news anchor Ginger Gadsden.

This is what he said. I mean you have a president of the United States that just

introduced a proposal to wipe out Social Security. The head of the actuarial

of the Department of Social Security said that if his plan

for Social Security trumps goes forward the entire fund will be depleted by the

middle of 2023 and then the article that Tommy Christopher wrote goes on to say

last week Social Security Chief Actuary Stephen Goss. This is just a

guy who runs the actuary department, the one that calculates how much money

we've gotten, how long it's going to last basically. Stephen Gus sent a letter

to Congress saying that under Trump's plan, if there were no other changes to the current

law, if they just did what Trump said, quote, the Social Security Trust Fund

would become permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year

2023 and the disability fund would become permanently depleted in the

middle of calendar year 2021 with no ability to pay disability benefits thereafter.

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