economy, but today, biden amped up his promise to protect social security and medicare and he called out those gop lawmakers who half of them last night after he accurately accused some of them who are looking to cut those programs. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset, i m not saying it s a majority. here is what was amazing, see that right there? that is senator mike lee, hugh peered visibly outraged even offended as he listened to president biden, this morning senator rick scott s said this quote, joe biden is either typical washington liar, or he is just confused. well, the president took absolutely no time to respond to those gentleman in saying this. you seem shocked when i raised the plans of some of the members and their caucus to cut social security. and marjorie taylor greene said
who watched it. and even people who read about it. so we clustered some moments together. here s how that default thing played out. here s president biden, also mike lee s response. take a look. oh, yeah. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not saying it s a majority [ booing ] i m politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look, folks, the idea is that we re not going to be we re not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don t respond. the president of the united states looked us right in the eye and mischaracterized what half the people in the chamber believe, what half the people in the chamber, according to him want. it wasn t true. he looked a little bit confused when he pushed back on it. i m here right now to tell you
congresswoman knows, as president, you never finish the job. there is a continuum. the matters that biden has to deal with, he got it started in his presidency, ukraine, but as we know, it goes way, way back. there s the inflation problem, there s the virus problem, and so forth. so he has a much larger agenda. he knows that. all of you know that. and yes, this was a great performance, sensational performance. and it s not going to be remembered, unfortunately, because we go on to the matters that he s going to be confronted with. well, let s take a look. president biden drew attention to a republican plan to put government programs like medicare and social security on the chopping block every five years. watch. some republicans want medicare and social security
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