Bernie Sanders Has Been Planning A Social Security Fight With Donald Trump For Years

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump walked into a carefully laid trap on Wednesday, when, in an interview on CNBC, he suggested he was open to cutting Social Security and Medicare. “When we win, we’re not going to just protect Social Security and Medicare, we’re going to expand them.” After HuffPost’s story went live Thursday afternoon, Trump defended his record further on Twitter. “Bernie Sanders can speak to the reality that working-class people of all races in this country feel that Trump tried to appeal to in 2016 but in fact has failed to deliver on.” - Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign The following month, as it became clear that repealing the Affordable Care Act would be a Republican priority in Trump’s first months in office, Sanders printed out one of Trump’s tweets promising to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and used it as a prop on the Senate floor. “Donald Trump promised the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he would be a champion of the working American and that he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,” Sanders said in a statement about Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget in March. “Mark my words, if we don’t win back the House and Senate, they’re going to drastically cut Social Security,” Biden said while campaigning for Democratic congressional candidates in October 2018.