At a press briefing, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked if he worries Social Security checks might not go out.
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00:00In a similar vein, with Social Security, job cuts to the Social Security Administration,
00:08what tools do Democrats actually have to prevent these kind of things from happening, and do
00:13you anticipate missed checks coming from Social Security?
00:17If Donald Trump and House Republicans want to take a chainsaw to Social Security, Medicare,
00:25and Medicaid, why?
00:29To pass a massive tax cut for Elon Musk and their billionaire donors.
00:36That's the whole scheme.
00:39It is a toxic scheme.
00:42Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump promised that Republicans were not going to touch Social
00:50Security, not going to touch Medicare, and not going to touch Medicaid.
00:56They lied.
00:59Republicans are detonating Social Security and its benefits, and the Social Security
01:08Administration in real time, and benefits are going to be adversely impacted.
01:16That's the reality of the situation.
01:19It's the reason why House Republicans are running scared.
01:23They were directed not to hold town hall meetings.
01:26They were missing in action all of last week, because they can't justify the attacks on
01:35Social Security, the attacks on Medicare, the attacks on Medicaid, and the attacks on
01:41the things that matter for the American people.