Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday for claiming President Donald Trump’s administration aims to demolish social security “from within.”
Schumer said during a Wednesday press conference that the administration’s “goal” is to “make [Social Security] so unworkable, so inefficient, that Donald Trump has the pretext to slash benefits to kill it and then privatize the program.” Bessent said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that Schumer’s alarmist rhetoric is obviously false and unhelpful. (RELATED: ‘I Don’t Care What Polls Say’: Joe Scarborough Demands Dems ‘Defend’ USAID From Shutdown In Two-Minute Rant)
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“Senator Schumer seems a little discombobulated these days. He did the right thing on passing the clean CR [continuing resolution] last week. He’s taken a lot of shrapnel from…
