$50 billion over 10 years. The first Trump administration wanted to use the demonstration authority that we're being asked today to reauthorize the slash $50 billion of earned benefits. Just last year, The Trump administration wanted to enact one of the biggest cuts to disability benefits ever by changing the rules for disability claims. 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. (02:05–02:15)
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Asserts that the Trump administration aimed to significantly cut disability benefits by altering claim rules.
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