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Ron Johnson: “When the trust fund runs out, benefits will be reduced to…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

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Which is just an economy gimmick, by the way. It's convention. But when those government bonds are no longer in the trust fund, they've been exhausted to pay the benefits that are now exceeding When the trust fund runs out, benefits will be reduced to match the revenue coming in to be somewhere between 75 and 80% in 20, I think now 33. So again, it's been completely mismanaged. Previous politicians have really lied to the American public about what it is. (15:33–15:42)

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Asserts that Social Security benefits will be reduced to 75-80% by 2033 when the trust fund is depleted.

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