Trump Reverses Course on Social Security and Medicare Cuts, Pledges Protection for Programs

 

Trump Backtracks On ‘Cutting’ Social Security And Medicare—Vows He’ll Never ‘Hurt’ Programs

Sara DornForbes Staff

Politics

TOPLINE

Former President Donald Trump said he “will never do anything that will hurt or jeopardize Social Security or Medicare,” walking back his controversial comments made days earlier suggesting cuts to entitlement programs.

Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in ...

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KEY FACTS

Trump told Breitbart in an interview published Thursday he wants to cut government spending generally, but the rollbacks would not include the entitlement programs.

“There’s so much cutting and so much waste in so many other areas,” Trump reportedly said during the interview from Mar-A-Lago Wednesday.

The statements contradict his suggestions Monday on CNBC that “there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” adding he would tamp down on “the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”

Trump’s campaign claimed the media and his adversaries selectively “cut his answers short” and said he was instead talking about “cutting waste” generally.

The comments drew fierce blowback from President Joe Biden, who said during a campaign speech in New Hampshire Monday “I’m never going to allow that to happen.”