Joe Biden is very offended that Bernie Sanders and many of his prominent supporters have been pointing out Biden’s fickle relationship with Social Security. Namely, that he has, for decades, pushed for cuts, siding with Republicans in their efforts to reduce government spending.
by Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir: “Joe Biden is no defender of Social Security, and a negative ad won’t help him outrun his record.”
About that record: unfortunately for Biden, it sucks, which I guess he’s willfully choosing to ignore.Biden has since the 1980s called for cuts in Social Security spending, moves that he defended as ways to both cut the federal deficit and preserve the future of the program.put him firmly in line with the type of “New Democrat” emerging in the ’80s, one who
was more concerned with deficit spending and reining in the cost of Social Security, Medicare, and Mediciad than in defending much-needed social programs.of all federal spending, which for Social Security would have led to no cost-of-living increase that year.
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