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Trump issues new threat on Social Security — after promising not to touch it
What happened
AlterNet reports that President Donald Trump said at a Wednesday press conference that he had wanted Social Security “fully invested in the stock market” during the first month of his first term in 2016, but abandoned the idea after criticism from Democrats and some Republicans. The article does not identify a new policy proposal, timetable, or explicit pledge to pursue privatization now. Its “new threat” is an interpretation of Trump’s renewed enthusiasm for the idea, not a concrete action established by the reporting.
The article also cites former Social Security Commissioner…
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