This change could have resulted in hundreds of thousands of older securities, severely disabled people being denied benefits. And after we spoke up, they backed down from this disastrous plan. And now our Republican colleagues want to grant the Trump administration the very demonstration authority to gut SSDI that President Trump has been begging for. And just to further exacerbate the Trump created customer Service Crisis at SSA, this Republican bill would strip millions from SSAs out operating funds to pay for it. (02:27–02:38)
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Asserts that Republicans want to give Trump the authority to reduce SSDI benefits.
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