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Tony Wied: “As it relates to, you know, Medicare, Social Security and…”

Featuring: Tony Wied, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 8

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Published | Video Starts at 22:23

If you have folks that are a little bit older and closer to the retirement age, some of those concerns are going to lean into the economy, their checkbook, and just making sure that that's going well. And then As it relates to, you know, Medicare, Social Security and, you know, those types of things, those more adult situations that you have to, hey, I paid into this, you know, I want to make sure that that's solvent. and that's my goal and that's what we're going to do is continue to make sure that we're, you know, making sure that those programs continue because they earned it, they deserve it, and that's what we as a country decided to do. (22:23–22:31)

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Asserts that older constituents are concerned about the solvency of Medicare and Social Security.

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