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President-elect Donald Trump has put forth a number of proposals that could affect social security in the coming years.

NPR's Windsor Johnson reports some Americans are worried that Trump's agenda

could put their monthly checks at risk. Social Security is already headed for a shortfall.

Trump's proposals to make it more solvent include eliminating taxes on tips and imposing more tariffs.

Charles Blahouse specializes in social security at George Mason University.

He says Trump's plan to end taxation on social security benefits would hurt the program the most.

It would worsen it, but if you weren't worried before, you shouldn't be that much worried about

this because the incremental worsening of program finances would be small relative to the

whole that we've already been living with. Any changes to Social Security's tax structure

would require 60 votes in the Senate, meaning that Republicans would need at least some Democrats

on board. Windsor Johnston, NPR News. President Biden's in Peru, meeting with several

world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. And PR has asked Mahalad reports on what's expected

to be their final big summit before Biden leaves office. There are two main missions for this meeting.

One is that Biden wants to cement the policy cooperation. He feels he's been able to

achieve in this relationship over the course of the last four years, you know, work to stop the

flow of fentanyl coordination on climate issues and discussions around the challenges of artificial

intelligence. But I would say most importantly, the other main mission here is to emphasize that

it is important to keep the lines of communication

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