Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 189
Will not touch Social Security or Medicare
Partial“We're not going to do anything with Social Security... We're not touching Social Security, other than we make it more efficient. Medicare is going to be strengthened.”
- Promised
- , CNBC 'Squawk Box' interview and repeated campaign statements
- Re-promised
- 15 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
PolitiFact rated this a Compromise. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act triggered statutory PAYGO sequestration exposing Medicare to roughly $500 billion in cuts over a decade and raised Medicare Part D costs, while the Social Security Administration was gutted by staffing cuts and leadership churn; the Treasury secretary's comments about private accounts were characterized by Democrats as a 'backdoor for privatizing Social Security.'