Social Security

“Right now it's projected social security will go bankrupt in 2035, 20 34, around that range.”

“I would say it's a red line for me to touch Social Security or Medicaid or Medicare.”

“I think that if you start to go and talk about austerity and cutting social security and healthcare benefits, it's literally a non-starter. People close their eyes, they plug their ears and you get nowhere.”

“A poll was done. And on that poll, 82% of voters oppose the push to cut Social Security for Americans under 50.”

“You cannot touch social security as a single party effort. It has to be bipartisan.”

“On the entitlement side, I think I'm the only person who's been talking about this and saying out loud, we've got to consider raising retirement age and we've got to consider means testing and eligibility for social security.”

“We've said we're not going to touch Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid. That was the president who said that.”

“No, I think Doge is going to reduce the size of certain things, but unless you were to do Social Security and do the military, those two things, I think, are the bulk of our budget, and so you really have to take those away in a significant way, and that's jus…”

“But behind closed doors, everyone says, 2030, 2032 is when it's gonna break, and so that's when everyone's kind of lining up, or thinking about, so no one even wants to deal with it.”

“Social Security's functionally going to be bankrupt in eight years.”

“The Australian superannuation, they've got 30 managers, and they have as much in their on their balance sheet today in their fund than Social Security does, about three trillion dollars, and they have seven percent of our population.”

“You know, we were, as an example, at Social Security, we were criticized for the web setup time. Well, turns out web setup time has been better since we got there than after, imagine we have engineers. And we've now published the metrics on the website publicl…”

“We have until 2032 when social security will be functionally bankrupt and everyone's going to get overtaxed and kids are going to end up having to pay through inflation for the benefits of the retirees of the last generation.”

“But it's not going to be around unless you raise the age to 70. That's the only way it sticks around.”

“The age doesn't fix Social Security anymore. You gotta means test it.”

“It runs 95% of ATMs in the US, and it powers Social Security payments.”

“It's the largest change to our social contract since 1935 and social security.”

“Then the next big thing is going to happen around 2030 to 20 32. And that's really where social security doesn't have any money to pay anymore. And I think during that era is also when a lot of the states are going to become bankrupt. We're not going to be abl…”