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Elizabeth Warren: “They found a backdoor way to cut benefits.”

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

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Interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Trump's Policies and Administration Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 27:27

If they want to cut Social Security benefits, they got to come to Congress to do it. So what Donald Trump and his co, President Elon Musk have done is They found a backdoor way to cut benefits. And the back doorway is basically to administer the system in a way that drives up the number of errors, that is mistakes that you don't get what you are legally entitled to and make it more and more impossible to get those errors corrected. (27:27–27:31)

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Asserts that a backdoor method is being used to cut Social Security benefits.

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