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Mark Pocan: “Trump repeated an outright lie about people getting false…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 45:29

Anyway, the largest caucus, I'm forgetting the name right now, has a stated policy of raising the retirement age to 70. We know that Trump, during the State of the Union speech, spent a lot of time repeating Trump repeated an outright lie about people getting false Social Security checks. Remember, I don't know if any of you watched it. My condolences if you did. (45:29–45:40)

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Asserts that Trump falsely claimed people received incorrect Social Security checks.

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