President Donald Trump said at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that Social Security payments could be rescued by a crackdown led by Vice President JD Vance on federal entitlement fraud.
“I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it,” Trump said. “We’re going to make our Social Security so strong.”
The government has warned that the trust fund for Social Security and Medicaid will be depleted sometime in the 2030s. Last year, a report from the trustees said that the fund will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2034 due to the cost of the benefits for an aging population exceeding payroll tax revenues….
Trump Suggests Vance’s Anti-Fraud Efforts Could Save Social Security
