Joe Biden falsely claimed he never called for Social Security cuts
During the Democratic debate Sunday night, former Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed he had never called for cuts to Social Security.
Sanders has made Biden’s past calls for cuts to Social Security a focus of his campaign this month as the Democratic presidential primary has come down to the two men. Biden has aggressively fought back, including with an ad that stressed his current platform, which calls for expanding Social Security benefits.
While it’s true that Politifact and the Washington Post were critical of Sanders’s ad, neither described it as completely false. Story continuesIn 2007, as he was running for president, Biden repeatedly expressed openness to raising the retirement age in an attempt to make it easier to pay for social safety net programs. Biden also reportedly was open to cutting Social Security during his first term as vice president, which began in 2009, as he sought to make budget compromises with Republicans.
But Biden did indeed talk about the need for Social Security cuts on the floor of the Senate. In Senate remarks from 1995 that have been highlighted by Sanders’s campaign, Biden noted that he had repeatedly called for cuts as part of efforts to reduce the deficit and balance the budget.
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