Joe Biden Breaks Silence In First Public Event Since Leaving White House | EUROtoday

Former President Joe Biden reemerged on the general public stage on Tuesday for the primary time since leaving the White House to emphasize the significance of Social Security and defend it amid assaults towards its efficacy beneath Donald Trump.

“Social Security is more than just a government program. It’s a sacred promise,” Biden mentioned at a convention in Chicago that was hosted by advocates for disabled individuals.

“From their first paycheck, people count on Social Security to be for them when they need it. We must never, ever turn our backs on that obligation,” he added.

Under Trump’s administration and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security has confronted web site outages, technical glitches and unanswered telephone traces. Thousands of workers members on the company administering this system have been laid off and dozens of subject workplaces have been shuttered.

Biden known as the deterioration of companies in this system beneath Trump “breathtaking.”

“In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so much damage and done so much destruction….they’ve taken a hatchet to the Social Security Administration.”

More than 70 million retired and disabled Americans obtain month-to-month Social Security advantages, with a number of million extra enrolling yearly.

Biden accused Republicans of searching for to “wreck” Social Security and different security web applications to assist finance a brand new bundle of tax cuts this 12 months.

“That’s going to cost $5 trillion. Where are they going to get $5 trillion? Where they always do, running up the national debt and by taking money from somewhere else,” he mentioned.

The former president additionally whacked Trump’s advisers for controversial feedback they made about Social Security in current weeks, together with Musk, who known as this system a Ponzi scheme, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who mentioned his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain about lacking one Social Security test.

“The current secretary of commerce doesn’t seem to get it. He doesn’t even seem to care,” Biden mentioned.