Gwen Moore: “Former chair of this committee, my good friend Paul Ryan…”

“I'm hoping that you're right. But we have known that Republicans have long wanted to destroy Social Security and really privatize it. As a matter of fact, Former chair of this committee, my good friend Paul Ryan from Wisconsin, openly tried to privatize Social Security. My own Senator Johnson was the first person I ever heard call it a Ponzi scheme long before, before Elon Musk was on the scene.” (04:41–04:51)

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