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David Schweikert: “At that moment, you get a 25% cut in your Social Security…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 17:43

That's what the Social Security Actuary report, if you would actually read the math, actually says. They use the word exhausted because it's gone. And At that moment, you get a 25% cut in your Social Security check. And we double senior poverty in America. And yesterday we had a Social Security subcommittee hearing in the Ways and Means, and one of the members, I think Jody Arrington gets credit for this. (17:43–17:47)

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Asserts that Social Security checks will be cut by 25% when the trust fund is exhausted.

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