WILL DONALD TRUMP BREAK SOCIAL SECURITY IF HE WINS A SECOND TERM?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Social Security Works President Nancy Altman published an op-ed detailing how Donald Trump could make Social Security benefits come to a screeching halt with no action from Congress whatsoever. Trump is already claiming the power to unilaterally defer Social Security contributions, and if he's reelected it would simply be a matter of continuing to do so.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:17.0 | Tom Hartman here with you on the line with us is the President of Social Security |
| 0:20.8 | Works, the chair of the Strengthen our Social Security Coalition, author of three books |
| 0:25.4 | about Social Security, Nancy Altman. |
| 0:28.1 | The website Social Security Works. |
| 0:30.2 | Her Twitter handle is Nancy Altman 5, or at SS Works. |
| 0:36.0 | Nancy, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:37.4 | I understand that Donald Trump issued an executive order that could lead to the death of Social Security or at least the Social Security trust fund within three years. |
| 0:48.8 | Do I have that right? |
| 0:50.3 | You have that right, the death of Social Security. |
| 0:53.0 | He has taken an action that's never before been taken in the 85-year history of the program, |
| 1:00.0 | unilaterally unprecedented, and more than his action. |
| 1:05.0 | When he took the action, he stated that if reelected, |
| 1:10.0 | he would do more of the same and that will lead to literally the end of Social |
| 1:15.8 | Security as we know us. Do you think that he did this in order to get Wall Street |
| 1:20.8 | to give him more money? Well, that could be, I think the reason he did it is the reason that a lot of the conservative |
| 1:30.4 | elites misunderstand the program. |
| 1:32.7 | They don't need Social Security. |
| 1:34.2 | They don't understand how important it is to virtually all of us |
| 1:39.7 | that we all contribute to it. |
| 1:42.0 | And they see it as simply a tax you know they can make it on their |
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