At today's Senate Democratic leadership press briefing, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) slammed President Trump and Elon Musk.
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00:00I'd just like to add the following.
00:07Seventy-three million Americans count on Social Security to survive.
00:12Rudy Han must stand before us and say that it's some kind of Ponzi scheme.
00:16Easy for a billionaire to make that claim, but for a lot of American families it's a
00:21lifeline.
00:22I want to make one other point.
00:25He referred to the people on Social Security as part of the parasite class.
00:30Why don't you think of a businessman who's facing bankruptcy who comes to the government
00:36and asks for a special loan under special terms so that his automobile company does
00:42not go bankrupt.
00:43That person, Elon Musk, that President Obama helped his company survive.
00:49Is he a parasite because he asked for a special favor from the government for this loan?
00:55The bottom line is this.
00:57Americans work hard their whole lives in the hopes that they'll have a comfortable, secure
01:01retirement.
01:02Social Security is one of the keys to it.
01:04But if we watch what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing to Social Security, we ought
01:08to be forewarned as much as at stake with this current administration and their cutbacks
01:14and the basic benefits for Americans who work for it their whole lives.