Weekend and now the blast forward to election day nine weeks away. Peter doocy at the white house neal, good afternoon we spent time with President Biden on the campaign as he tried to make the case he thinks republicans like donald trump more than they like entitlement programs. Speak with the biggest contrast from maga republicans the extreme right, the trumpies. They want to these maga republicans in congress are coming for your Social Security as well. You, by the way, as i said, you might think that im making this stuff up because its so outrageous. He is referring a plan by republican rick scott to make Congress Vote to reauthorize every Spending Program every five years and an attempt to cut down government waste. So now scott is challenging the premise of the president s claims there. Of course hes going to lie about it but what i believe you have to do everything to preserve medicaid and Social Security. Make sure these are lasting programs. So, Congress Every year telling the
weekend and now the blast forward to election day nine weeks away. peter doocy at the white house neal, good afternoon we spent time with president biden on the campaign as he tried to make the case he thinks republicans like donald trump more than they like entitlement programs. speak with the biggest contrast from maga republicans the extreme right, the trumpies. they want to these maga republicans in congress are coming for your social security as well. you, by the way, as i said, you might think that i m making this stuff up because it s so outrageous. he is referring a plan by republican rick scott to make congress vote to reauthorize every spending program every five years and an attempt to cut down government waste. so now scott is challenging the premise of the president s claims there. of course he s going to lie about it but what i believe you have to do everything to preserve medicaid and social security. make sure these are lasting programs. so, congress e
watch what happened with steve bannon. i m not putting the president in that category. we don t have an update yet. but clearly the president s message today is about putting deficit reduction in the larger picture of the economy and trying to say to constituents across the country who are voters that he has a plan that is already reducing the deficit for various reasons, trying to say that the policies of his administration are putting a dent in the deficit. part of that is because covid spending has been greatly reduced and he s trying to argue that that s one piece when you look at the strong job picture right now with unemployment at a very historic low, job wage growth has been strong. we understand that s all offset by the pain people feel with inflation which is also been at a 40-year high. so trying to walk through what
yet. it might be a little bit of a wait, not jumping ahead of what the president is going to do. but the purpose of this is for the president to talk about his administration s economic plans and how they relate to reducing the deficit. something that he believes is a part of the policy decisions his administration has made that have reduced the deficit in part because and the biden administration doesn t always account for this publicly, the spending related covid that existed in prior years and certainly with the prior administration which encompassed a lot of government spending, that that has pulled back as, of course, we re in a different place with covid now. and so because of that, that is one component of deficit reduction. that, of course, is a big piece of the economic picture the president wants to tout. he likes to point to things like the strong job picture, that wages are still strong. of course, on the other side of