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Elizabeth Warren: “Congress established Social Security, and only Congress can…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Discussion on Social Security Challenges Involving Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Published | Video Starts at 00:37

This is Donald Trump and Elon Musk working together as co presidents to keep people from getting the Social Security benefits that they earned and they were promised by law. Can Trump and Musk actually do this? No, not legally. Congress established Social Security, and only Congress can cut benefits officially. But Trump and Musk are so determined to cut people's access to Social Security, they're trying a backdoor way. (00:37–00:45)

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Asserts that only Congress has the authority to officially cut Social Security benefits.

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