The former president posted a video on his social network, Truth Social.
WASHINGTON – Former United States President Donald Trump (2017-2021) urged Republicans this Friday not to modify Social Security or Medicare benefits, the latter a health coverage program for those over 65, in the face of threats of his party to limit federal spending.
In a video posted on his social network, Truth Social, the former president, who already announced his intention to run in the 2024 presidential elections in November, stressed that “under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security”.
Even so, he criticized the government of President Joe Biden for its “reckless spending” and accused him of having spent “more than anyone” in the history of the country.
Immediately afterwards, he took the opportunity to attack the climate and immigration policies of the Democrats and Biden, and to breastfeed the measures he adopted during his Presidency.
“We should stop Biden’s rampant spending. That pain should be borne by Washington bureaucrats, not American working families or seniors,” he opined.
In this sense, he suggested that when it comes to cutting spending, Republicans focus on the “billions of dollars” that he assured are going to “corrupt foreign countries”, without offering further explanations or providing any evidence.
He also proposed cuts in “climate extremism” policies and to stop releasing migrants “en masse”, despite the fact that during the Biden government the measures imposed by his Executive to expeditiously expel the undocumented from the country have been maintained. .
Trump ended his speech with “Save Social Security, don’t destroy it, Democrats want to destroy Social Security.”
This video comes after the United States on Thursday hit the debt limit, which currently stands at $31.38 trillion.
The debt ceiling is the total amount of money the government is allowed to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations to pay Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax returns, taxes and other payments.
From time to time, the United States faces default on the national debt because, unlike other countries, the US Executive can only issue debt up to the limit established by Congress, which has the power to raise that ceiling as it sees fit.
Although the limit has been raised dozens of times in the past, this time there is concern after Republicans in the lower house, controlled by conservatives, promised they would not raise it unless Biden accepts spending cuts. federal, which the president has already said he is not going to do.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote in a letter to congressional leaders on Thursday that her department has already activated “extraordinary measures” to pay bills, but stressed that the use of those special financial tools extends until the next 5 of June.
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