During a Senate Democratic press briefing about social security on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) discussed the Senate democrat’s efforts in protecting social security.
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00:00And now, from Arizona, Senator Kelly.
00:04Thank you, everybody, for being here.
00:06I've got a lot of retired folks in the state of Arizona
00:10that are really freaked out about this.
00:13We hear it all the time.
00:14My parents, my grandparents relied on Social Security.
00:20They would have been in a really bad spot
00:23if they were alive today, all of them.
00:27When Elon Musk called Social Security a Ponzi scheme,
00:30the president should have fired him immediately
00:33from his government job.
00:35He's got plenty of resources.
00:37He would have been fine.
00:39Seniors are not going to be fine
00:42if he continues in this rampage on this program.
00:48This isn't the government's money.
00:50This is money that these seniors have earned
00:53through a lifetime of hard work.
00:57During COVID, I delivered Meals on Wheels,
01:01and on a number of days,
01:02I showed up at seniors' homes who needed lunch and dinner.
01:11And I went inside of some of these homes,
01:14and I talked to them about how important this food
01:18was to them.
01:20These seniors exist all over the country.
01:24They rely on this income,
01:27often as their only source of income.
01:31To a person, it would have been devastating to them
01:36and their finances.
01:40And they're wrecking Social Security.
01:41Make no mistake, they're firing staff.
01:43They're cutting services.
01:44They're making it harder for Americans
01:47to get a real person on the phone.
01:51And they're telling them to show up at the office.
01:54And then when they get to the office,
01:55they're telling them to go online.
01:57This is cutting Social Security.
01:59This is exactly what they're doing.
02:03President Trump said he wouldn't cut Social Security.
02:06But I'll tell you this, if even one American is denied
02:09from getting benefits that they've earned,
02:12they are breaking the promise.
02:14So with all of this, we are going to be laser-focused
02:18on hearing from Americans about their stories.
02:21We're going to amplify them.
02:22We're going to talk to the American people
02:24about how this is going to impact them
02:26and their family members in the future.
02:28And we're not going to let President Trump
02:30and Elon Musk break this promise to the American people.