.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump scrambles after accidentally sharing Social Security plan.
After years in which Donald Trump assured the public that he’d never cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, the president adopted a different posture this week. Asked by CNBC’s Joe Kernen whether “entitlements” would ever end up on his plate, Trump replied, “At some point they will be…. And at the right time, we will take a look at that.”
It was the election-year message Democrats were eager to hear. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , who’s been relentlessly on-message this week, shifted his focus a bit yesterday, telling reporters at the start of a Capitol Hill press conference, “Even as the impeachment trial is underway, Trump is still talking about cutting your Social Security.” On Thursday, the president tried to clean up his own mess.
It’s worth unpacking this, because the issue is likely to be one of the dominant focal points of the presidential election. Second, the president may want people to believe he’s “totally left it alone,” but to the degree that reality matters, his White House budget plans have proposed tens of billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security. Those proposals were ignored by lawmakers, but there’s an obvious discrepancy between trying to slash a program and leaving it alone.
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