the first is social security. more than 80 years ago, president roosevelt signed the social security act into law. in doing so he provided economic security for american workers. since then, social security has proven to be the most successful antipoverty program in our history. each year it lifts more than 20 million americans, including a million children out of poverty. it's hard to imagine a world without social security, but i want everybody to understand, pre-social security we had tens of millions of americans, more than we do now, who would be in poverty upon retirement. this program has actually reduced poverty among the elderly more than any other program could possibly have accomplished. nowhere is social security more important than in hawaii. more than 200,000 people receive social security benefits. for more than one in four, hawaii seniors, social security is their own source of income. and the money isn't enough. it is about $14,000 a year. hawaii is considered the second or third most expensive ho

thanks to social security, our seniors have a basic income to see them through their golden years. ey can live out our lives in relative comfort and security rather than, as franklin roosevelt put it, within the walls of a poorhouse. in 2016, roughly 61 million americans received over $900 billion in social security benefits. that's a huge injection into our economy, and it's spent almost immediately on fundamental goods. nearly nine out of ten americans older than 65 receive social security benefits, and for a quarter of our social security benefits, including those who are both single and those who are married. social security accounts for virtually their entire income. that would be many millions, more than 15 million americans who would definitely be struggling in the most difficult fashion financially if social security didn't exist. retired workers and their dependents account for about 71% of the benefits paid. funds also go to disabled workers. disabled workers and their dependents account for about 16% of the benefits. survivors of deceased workers account for another 13% o

you do not have to cut social security benefit for people on social security to solve this. every year that goes by the solution gets harder and more difficult and painful for people 50, 100 years from now. to oversimplify this, i want to get at a couple things. dr. hall, if we were to -- social security, there are only a few levers. some people say four, some people say five, basically, you can change the age, look at means testing, you can look at the inflator embedded in there, incorrect, and you can also talk about the revenue formula. beyond that, if we were to, for example on the debt that we have, and i like to look at the public debt because i happen to think the debt we owe social security and medicare trust funds is real debt and we'll eventually have to pay the piper there. you talk about the interest rate going up, i think with the assumption it would be at the higher level of 2 1/2 to 3% during the life of this. >> that's right. >> what would happen if interest rates went to the 30 year average of 5 1/2% on public debt and debt owed to mainly social security tru

do not have to worry about social security. >> anybody of any age on social security where you wouldant to cut their benefits that they are receiving now? >> no. >> you do not want to cut any existing benefits? >> no. >> and it is not there was someone currently social security needs to be afraid of this. how about someone was 40 years old and is expected to work for another, i don't know 25 or 30 years? can we deliver on a promise that social security currently makes to that person? is anyway without change to the structure of the program that we will be able to follow through on that commitment? >> without changing the current social security program, a 40-year-old today will receive roughly 77 percent of what they have been promised for their adult life. >> to continue to suggest that we do not have to do anything here is just being dishonest. to the young people and if i understand correctly, the change that you would advocate would be for people who have many years left in their working lives to plan accordingly and to prepare for the eventuality. is that fair? >> correct may re

social security checks getting clipped for other programs. wait until y >> you hear it all the time in d.c., scare tactics over potential cuts in social security berths, but did you know that cuts in social security checks are already happening? it's a part of a bipartisan plan to fix medicare payments to doctors during the obama administration. well, my family just found this out the hard way, steve, this just got personal. my folks called me up, they're my lovely folks, and said, look, we've got $500 a month less in our social security checks. and that's not supposed to be cut into. apparently in order to do the doc fix, the government decided it's okay to dock social security checks, it's not right. >> it isn't right. the contract for social security, it's not a welfare program, you're paying into it all your working life to get certain benefits promised when you retire, to cheat people like that, like a company saying we owe you a certain amount for your annuity, your income is too high and so we're going to keep it. one thing to keep in

well, social security is not a ponzi scheme. social security is not a hand out. social security is a promise we make to america's seniors after decades of hard work. it is the commitment we made to those who built this nation, fought in wars, and provided for their families. seniors pay into the system throughout their working lives and they expect it to be there for them when they retire. we need to keep that promise. social security is not just a line in the budget. it is a lifeline for millions of americans. in massachusetts, the program keeps 295,000 people above the poverty line. across the country, more than 15 million elderly americans are able to live out their life because they have a social security check and not be driven into poverty. that's what it does for 15 million americans. seniors would have nowhere to turn if president trump and representative mulvaney have their way and social security ceases to exist. congressman mulvaney has repeatedly suggested

trump told working people and seniors he would not cut social security. congressman mulvaney is on record as wanted to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid . over and beyond, congressman mulvaney's modifications is the issue of whether we should be voting for somebody who's views views are in direct contrast to what the president of the united states campaigned on. thank you. >> thank you, senator. i would be remiss if i did not mention that the secretary of the treasury, mr. geithner, did not pay personal income taxes and headed the irs after being confirmed. it isn't -- i do not think it was republicans that drove them out, it was the thought of what was going to happen. senator sanders has requested a rollcall vote. we will proceed to that now. no votes can be by proxy but "aye" votes have to be present. the question is, is a nomination is mick mulvaney to director of office management and document, i support the nominee and urging yes vote -- i moved that the committee report this nomination to the senate with the recommendation of the nominee

res. 40, disapproval of misguided social security administration regulation. that infringes on many americans' second amendment rights. as a cosponsor of the senate companion to this resolution which was filed by chairman grassley, i would like to add my voice to that of the many advocates including the national disabilities rights and network and groups like the national rifle association who worked to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners who have expressed support for this important legislation. i would also like to express my appreciation to chairman grassley and others for their leadership on this issue. this ill-advised regulation not only stigmatizes individuals with disabilities, it also violates the second amendment and due process rights of many americans and it should be repealed. as a long time supporter of americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms, i was deeply troubled by this regulation which allows the social security administration to report individuals they considered in the words used in the regulation to be -- quote -- me

social security will be protected. but then who gets named to run the office of management and budget? somebody who wants to raise retirement age to 70, someone who wants to fundamentally change medicare as we know it. somebody who has an agenda that looks a lot like 1981 and 1982 in the reagan years, very much like it. and so is there anything new here? no. is this just a sales job, a con job? yes. because when you pull back the covers and you look at what's about to unfold, it is something that is going to be very destructive of our economy. it's going to further income inequality across our country. it is going to reduce opportunity for every child in our country rather than democratizing access to opportunity through health care and education, they are going to work systematically to undermine those opportunities, to reduce the chances of that, that they can maximize their god-given abilities. so that's why this election is so important, because the o.m.b. controls the federal budget. that is all the hopes and all

current social security benefits are not subject to it. the rule is predicted to cover about 75,000 americans once it takes effect out of the estimated ten million suffering from serious mental illness. i might adhere for the record, i do not want to suggest that every person who has any form of mental illness is a danger. in fact, exactly the opposite is true. but we do know that those who suffer serious mental conditions many times are engaged in violent conduct and many times with horrible results when they have firearms. the rule that we're being asked to repeal on the floor of the senate provides for advanced notice of the social security administration determination and the right to appeal through an administrative process and court. a person can obtain relief from the firearms prohibition by having health care providers and character witnesses submit statements that the person is not a danger to himself or others. everyone claims -- every politician it claims -- theaments -- that he wants to keep deadly firearms out of the hands of

. >> a regulation put in place by the obama administration would require the social security administration report people who receive mental health disability benefits to gun background checklist that will prevent them from buying a firearm. republicans have introduced a resolution to revoke this regulation. here here are some of today's debate beginning with chuck grassley. >> it be before i speak they should be for the senate now ase unanimous consent that for privileges be granted this congress for daren't dive, from the u.s. secret service and to -- [inaudible] from the department of justice. >> without objection. mr >> today, come to the floor to address my colleagues about the bipartisan resolution of disapproval that i introduced on january 30, along with senator kriebel and 24 other cosponsors. this resolution has 32 cosponsors, of course this resolution of disapproval is absolutely necessary. revie the resolution is a procedure, as we know under the congressional review act for repealing executive branch at regulations. the regulation at issue in this disapproval resolution was iss

payee process; i namely that, and i quote from the social security report, the social security administration's capability determinations were or undeveloped -- were undeveloped, undocumented and insufficiently documented, end of quote. now, very legitimate question can be raised, how can any of us be comfortable allowing our fellow citizens to be subjected to such a process, a process that leads to the violation of constitutional rights? the regulation does not then require a formal hearing at any point. federal law and othertions, reqi regulations require that a formal hearing take place. 18usc922 paren d, a paren four p requires adjudication before depriving someone of the right to own a firearm due to mental illness. there can be no adjudication if there is no hearing. in a 1996 atf federal register notice says, quote: the legislative history of the gun control act makes it clear that a formal adjudication issa necessary before firearms disabilities are incurred, end quote. the obama administration knew that fundamental rights required constitutional due process. at the bare minimum, that r

"may i verify your social security number?" far as you're concerned, you just took care of a problem with your account. perfect, give me just one second to pull up your account here. in reality, you just gave up your personal information. that's all i needed. yeah, no problem at all. and that's how easy it is to steal someone's social security number. >> in 2015, i got a letter from the irs saying they needed to prove my identity. somebody had filed a return in my name. to know that somebody knew enough about me that they could go through with filing a tax return with my name, my social security number, it just felt wrong. well, when i called bobby, my lifelock agent, and when she started going through the process, the steps, it was like, "ah, they know what they're doing." great feeling. >> do you shred your documents? have strong passwords? have a good relationship with your bank? do you believe these things will protect you from having your identity stolen? well, they're not always enough. lifelock members have identity-thef

one thing to keep in mind for social security during your lifetime.'s say they take out $3,000 a year to pay for your social security account. that 3000 is taxed by the federal government and state governments so you don't get the money, but pay tax on and when you retire they gratuitously cut the benefit? you go to jail in the private sector, by the way. david: we should mention president obama signed it, but it was bipartisan and republicans, too. >> people pay close attention. it's a great article. pay close attention more may happen. what the doc fix was designed to do and it will do, it ties doctor pay, medicare reimbursements to quality measurements so if they're not paid-- >> there's more than an excuse for these things. bruce makes a good point. i understand that, but even before we're retired, we get the account statements every year, this is how much you get when you retire, it doesn't say you may lose some of that because the doc fix. >> i have to check the fine print. this is a truth in advertising fraud, sorry to be heavyhanded with that

"may i verify your social security number?" far as you're concerned, you just took care of a problem with your account. perfect, give me just one second to pull up your account here. in reality, you just gave up your personal information. that's all i needed. yeah, no problem at all. and that's how easy it is to steal someone's social security number. >> in 2015, i got a letter from the irs saying they needed to prove my identity. somebody had filed a return in my name. to know that somebody knew enough about me that they could go through with filing a tax return with my name, my social security number, it just felt wrong. well, when i called bobby, my lifelock agent, and when she started going through the process, the steps, it was like, "ah, they know what they're doing." great feeling. >> do you shred your documents? have strong passwords? have a good relationship with your bank? do you believe these things will protect you from having your identity stolen? well, they're not always enough. lifelock members have identity-thef

president says he wants to keep medicare, no cuts, social security, no cuts to existing people on social, nor those about to come on, nor those in the future. he wants a massive infrastructure spending program. those are all things that republicans have never gone for, and i don't think it's going to be automatic that they'll they'll give him all the spending that he wants. >> it's interesting, paul ryan today was asked about what the president is the calling for. doesn't that break with what you've been saying? he pointed to the repeal of obamacare. i consider that fundamentally entitlement reform. so that's the answer we're getting right now from paul ryan. bill press, matthew, thank you for taking a few minutes. appreciate it. >> all right steve. >>> meanwhile as the president makes his feelings about the press well known, what does the american people think about it? number might surprise you. it's the most important number of the day. we will share it with you next. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads... here... here... or here. today, there's another op

social security, it's disability. these are problems that we have seen coming for decades. and they are getting closer now. and absolutely the quicker we do something, the better. if we look at achieving a 75-year solvency for the social security trust fund, just right now it would require a 33% reduction in benefits. and if we wait six years, something like that, that goes up to 38%. it goes up about five percentage points every six years, something like that. there is a real cost to waiting. the longer we wait, the bigger the cut in benefits and increases in taxes we need. senator enzi: in conjunction with senator sanders, swreel additional questions on the levers of social security. i invite senator boozman, senator king to be a part of that, too. i think it's some information that we really need to gather. i thank you very much for being willing to do this and for your answers and for the conciseness of your answers. if anybody has additional questions, those are due by 6:00 p.m. today with a hard copy delivered to the committee in 624, and then we ask that you respond

he calls social security a ponzu scheme. he further has said that he supports turning medicare into a voucher system that under any independent economist examination would lead to big cuts for seniors, many of whom of our senior citizen have no other options for health coverage. when the president was running for -- remember, he said exactly the opposite. then candidate trump said he promised that there would be no cuts to medicare and social security and yet the white house has nominated somebody that has taken positions contrary to that because it's clear from congressman mulvaney's past positions that we can't rely on him to keep this promise that the president said and, again, i remind our listeners that the head of the o.m.b. is like a chief aircraft traffic controller. he's directing a lot of the traffic of what the white house will bless and it is a position, need i remind you, that is also considered a member of the president's cabinet. well, the positions mull -- the position mulvaney has taken is opposite those sta

she receives $700 a month from social security disability. she has no savings, she pays for her medicare part-d supplement out of her social security. i am retired so i can only help her a bit. if trump's first idea about trump care goes into law where he assumes you will buy your health insurance out of savings, i fear meg will live in her bed watching her quiz shows on television and her network of care, including emergency services, rehab physical therapy, chronic disease management prescription drugs will be reduced. i understand why you're wore i had, al -- worried, allen. i'm worried too because i think that is exactly the path we're on with congressman price's nomination to head up h.h.s. that's why we're fighting back. boston center for independent living also shared a story from a constituent named jill who receives health care from the state's medicaid program. so let me tell you a little bit about jill. jill is 62 years old, she has a heart defect, seizure disorder and serious osteoporosis, she has had a career as a manager of a wo

social security -- by the social security administration improvement amendments act of 2007. all points of order against consideration of the joint resolution are waived. the joipt resolution shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the joint resolution are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution and on any amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion except, one, one hour of debate equally divide and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the judiciary or their respective designees and two, one motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for one hour. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. during consideration of thisres. lougs all time yielded is for purpose of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their re

it is the same name with social security. social security over time has been raised from 65 to 67. the congressmen maldini has asked about raising the eligibility for social security to age 70. w i don't think this is going to go over too well with a population of senior and who have paid into social security,n who have paid in to finance medicare and now are being told they are going to have domain until later. i know how you can test it out. you can say it's not going to affect anybody that is currently eligible but what about all the young people better paid then. time flies and suddenly find they are approaching that age in their mid-60s. i don't think people are going to take very well to congressman boucher decision. but viewed by the fbi said. he has called it a ponzi scheme. he further has said that he supported turning medicare into a voucher system that under any independent economist examination would lead to big cuts for seniors, many of whom are senior citizen have no other options for health coverage. when the president was running for office, remember he said exactly

for a majority of seniors, soaghts -- social security is their largest source of income. are we thinking of equating that with tax cuts for the wealthiest in this country of over $1 million. i don't think that's fairness and what we should be doing. when we look at the programs financed through government, are we are going to take away from our students? they already are suffering too high as far as the cost of attending colleges and interest rates are already too high in regards to what they do. are we going to put more pressure, put more cuts in regards to how we help our students? are we going to cut maintaining our highways? we want to spend more money on highways and bridges and transit systems and border infrastructure, which i think we need to do. how do you do that if you cut $4 interest though $6 trillion of revenue on? or how about something like our national parks? we take pride and we want to maintain that. but with the pressure on the budget as a result of taking the revenues out of government, we know what's going to happen. we've seen this movie before. we'

you have a social security system unviable in in 2034.ese two things. one of the problems we're running into is the budget scored on a ten-year period. in a plan like this doesn't work that way. it does allow us to keep our promises to our seniors. it forces no one to do anything, but allows the math way out and actually would invest about 60 cents on the dollar as relates to current social security rates if people chose to use the delayed benefit to pay off student loan debt. we've got to have creative, outside-the-box solutions. yet you don't change the promises you made yesterday. you need to make maybe different promises tomorrow. >> if you don't see those creative solutions in whatever budget the president does present and you see it as a budget that will blow a hole in the deficit, will you do what your office said you would do, which is you're not afraid to, quote, vote no on bad budgets? >> i was in the virginia senate for five years, i think i voted for one budget out of five. what we're looking for is a budget that has a definab

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social security. senators voted for social security. 81 republican members of the house voted for social security. in 1965, 70 republican congressmen voted for medicare. 13 republican senators voted for medicare. when you come to the affordable care act, no republicans either in the house or the senate voted for the expansion of the social safety net. part is due to changes in the republican party. part of that is a backlash to the great society and the sense among many americans that government can't deliver on its promises but what happened with the affordable care act that did not happen with social security or medicare is it became a straight down the line party vote. it's very partisan and the challenge for the republican party mnow is to deliver on the benefits americans seem to want while also maintaining some of the story, the narrative that they've been giving the american people about the fact that the affordable care act is just terrible in every respect. >> we'll leave it right there. tim

so show me -- i would ask austin and you, show me one democrat that will cut social security or medicareed to do? do this without a single democratic vote? >> now, hold on. >> austin, hold on. >> there's only one person i can think of in the republican party who has been the leader of the charge, let us never cut social security and not cut medicare, and that person is now the president of the united states. so if the republicans in congress that steve is a big fan of, they better start talking to the president, because as i say, the president's budget is not in anyway going to add up, it's not even intending to add up, he's just going to say i want to spend more on the military. and when they ask him how he's going to pay for it, he's going to abolish funding for public broadcasting, and defund planned parenthood. >> let me take that on for a minute, if i could. neither of you mention one democrat who wants to cut these programs, i don't see how you can do that without a single democratic vote, on this issue of waste, fraud and abuse, there was a study, as you know, that came out a year

there have been -- i'm not an expert in social security. there are adjustments and benefits in things like that but they haven't affected the long run problem that we've seen coming for decades. it's still coming. >> i think the last time we made much progress in this area was very bipartisan with president regan and the house was democratic in that period, tip o'neil, howard baker. they came together, set up a commission and extended the life of social security fairly dramatic in the middle '80s. we haven't gone back and done too much since then. is that correct as you recall? >> that's correct. it would be 7-6 which we actually introduced. seven members chosen effectively by the president and the majority party, six by the minority but you have to have nine votes to actually report something to congress. congress would have 60 days to vote up and down and i would invite my colleagues on both sides of the isle to look at that legislation. if you read the numbers which you so accurately and persuasively put out here, sooner or later you hav

i'm not an expert in social security. there have been some adjustments and benefits in eligible to, that, but they still haven't affected the long-run problem that we've seen coming for decades. it's still coming. >> i think the last time we really made much progress in his day was very bipartisan. it was with president reagan and the house was democratic in that period, tip o'neill, howard baker in the senate. they set up a commission and extended the life of social security fairly dramatically in the middle 80 spirit we haven't really gone back and done too much since then. is that correct? as you recall? >> that's correct. >> i say this and a very self-serving way because my friend, mr. delaney o on the otr side, and i have a bill that would set of the commission that would be by nature bipartisan ticket would be seven and six. we've introduced at a couple congress, seven members chosen effectively by the president and the majority party six by the minority. but you would have to have nine votes to actually report some

she relies exclusively on social security and small savings. so we get the number. even thee i am in this position of public service, first of all, i didn't know who to call about it at the time. number two, it's caller id so there's nothing i can do about it. but even if i had been able to lure them into an extensive conversation, i'm not shuure if should have gone to local government, the fbi, a little confusion about what to take it to. the second is her caregiver. she has people that come during the day and watch her sometimes, making sure she's taking her meds. we have to educate them as well. and the third is the language barrier. my mother speaks english but her first language was spanish. that's where she watches the soap operas every night. she watches them on the spanish language networks. a lot of people are being targeted because of the language barrier. in all of this is embedded the fom lo following questions. what can we do to better educate the caregivers. like, do we recommend that they actually talk to these people, enganl them and play detective o

that's on social security. without taking a particular view, if they -- if they were to scrap the cap, how much revenue would that raise and how much would that go towards solving some of the structural deficits? >> it would have an impact. don't have the number in my head. we did the calculation and that option for reducing the deficit volume that we just produced, that was one of the options we put in there. if you look at that, and we can follow up too, give you some idea of how much of an impact that would have. >> i appreciate that. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back that balance of time. mr. sanford is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i appreciate the thoughtful comments for my colleague from new york and from california. and we do see things differently, and i want to bore down on what my other colleague from california, mr. mcclintock was getting at. in the danger of a sovereign debt crisis, i think it is much more real than people realize. and i think it is much

>> who is right if the economy sails i'm right, i'm not touching social security. >> your omb is wrong? >> i'm not saying anybody is wrong. i think this is what's going to happen, brian, i think our country is going to sail. >> reporter: parse that. that is the president doing what he's done for months now, to continue to reiterate he is not going to be touching these entitlements. paul ryan is somebody who has worked for years to try to make the point that that overhaul needs to happen in order to make real dramatic changes to government spending, the house speaker saying this morning on nbc news with matt lauer that health care reform would be entitlement reform. it was interesting to hear him at his press conference earlier this morning ali talk about that given that did not seem to be one of his big pushes prior to president trump taking office. >> yes but you don't have to be an expert to look the at the budget and say if you are increasing defense spending to the degree they want to, you have to cut so many other things if you never touch entitlements. whether or not you aglee wi

he said he wasn't going to go touch these entitlements, that social security was safe. is that what he has to follow through on at this point? >> well, what he said is that he wasn't going to cut entitlements. i'm hoping that means that he can at least slow down the rate of growth. the way i look at what we think we know of the trump budget, it's going to be good, bad, good and question mark. good, less discretionary domestic spending. bad, not touching entitlements. good, tax cuts. and then what's he going to do, is he going to do anything on the long run growth, that's the problem. trish: i've got to tell you, i am impressed. i don't know if the view arer can hear all the sirens, but we all certainly d, dan, yomade it all the way through despite the news. [laughter] anyw, you're making good points here. tommy, what's the reality when it comes to these entitle elements and knowing that it makes up, basically, half of your overall budget, you know? do they need to be fair game? >> the reality is if you want to preserve the entitlements and if you want to balance the bud

idoing it through their employe, 12 cent of every dollar you make comes off the top to pay for social securitypeople have a notion that sectional security is out there for me. so why would i pit other money away, can you blame people for thinking that way, social security has been billed as a great program. kennedy: a forced savings plan, we don't need another forced savings plan, but social security will not remain solvent. >> within 20 years, it is not going to be able to pay its promised benefits, most people do not know, that they are expecting more from it than they will get. the problem with census bureau data, they talk about massive retirement crisis, then states like california, oregon, maryland, and connecticut, say, hey, employers, you have to provide a retirement account or enforce them to enroll in a tate state plan, or good let's have another state plan to take care of state plan that not working that is my problem with calling this a crisis, you end up with bad solutions. kennedy: a quarter of your salary, that you may not draw from when it is time to retire, they will raise ret

medicare has made, between social security and medicare, seniors have been lifted up out of poverty remarkably. not everybody and not completely . but it has been in a transformative way. medicare being so essential to the health and financial security. when medicare was debated in the johnson administration, republicans did not support it, just as i may have a moment between differentiation between party at republicans, some of them eventually voted at the end, but they supported every amendment to block, to block, to block. in the 1990's, they gained control of the house, the congress, and newt gingrich's motto was medicare should weather on the vine. now that is their attitude -- medicare should wither on the vi ne. that is their attitude. this time when they take back ryanongress and in the budget, they put in a provision to take away the guarantee of medicare and to voucherize it. remove the guarantee, which is to do away with medicare. in terms of the subject, that is a fight that we will make and that the public is with us on. and i have said too many times, president lincoln said publi

this is underbelly of the social security story we don't hear a lot. >> social security accounts areposed to be sacrosanct. even if you're not retired, you get the accounts once a year, this is how much you will get. not necessarily. my parent found out about it couple weeks ago. i got a call from a bookkeeper that helps them out with the monthly bills because they are getting old. do you realize your parent are getting $500 a month less than they used to get from social security? but that is not supposed to happen. your social security account is written in stone. you're supposed to get what you were promised to get with the government. apparently the doc fix done in 2015, if very wealthy people were getting so much money that they were in a class where they apparently, the benefits they were getting were less than what they should be, you would be docked from your social security accounts in order to pay for that money that, for the doc fix. the point is, that my parents are not rich people. just happened that one year they had to sell a lot of stock in order to pay for some medica

then taking someone's social security.l something one's i.d. >> we should make a distinction between violent crime and what happened with the woman who was deported who came here as a 14-year-old. her crime was using a social security number fraudulently so she could work as a janitor. we want the people here come hog want to work and perform those jobs. other component that's important to talk about is the economy situations. some of the things trump is doing with trade policy will destabilize mexico and create moral demand for jobs in the united states. what can we do to make sure our neighbors are flourishing and mexico is a place where people want the stay and work. charles: the idea that there is not bad crimes. in other words if someone foal someone's social security number to navigate america as an illegal, should they be deported? >> they should be deported. but something we should point out is what about the business owners giving jobs to those illegals. this cleaning delayedy that was deported in arizona. she had

then social security. the president says all of that, those first two categories, he will not touch. that leaves the rest. military, he has promised one of the greatest military buildups in american history. he'll focus more money on shipbuilding, military aircraft, the choke points, the strait of hormuz, that's more spending on top of the $600 billion a year we already spend on that. then you have interest, you can't cut that. the safety net, there's some money there. food stamps, maybe school lunch programs. you'll have to get congress to go along with that as well. but if you don't touch those entitlements, that means every other mathematic choice you make is that much more critical and difficult. >> or he goes to congress and makes the argument that the economy is going to grow at 4, 5, 6% under him as president, things he's said before. john said this is based on on 2.5% annual growth scenario, you can't make that argument. >> he's promised 3%, 4% growth. the idea that the economy is going to grow so

tax cuts a big defense department, all the social security and medicare and medicaid you want but it's not a realistic document and we'll get scoring at some point and from the agencies what they can do. >> a couple questions, david. i want to ask you specifically to respond whatnia said. where were other presidents with their budgets and did the skinny budgets on target? did they get the same criticism? >> this is a process this idea of putting out policy priorities in budget form in the skinny budget initially and deeper inhad to the year deeper than you'll see in any subsequent year forward because he didn't start until january 20th and didn't have the team in place. >> so this process is taking longer? >> every president's process is a little delayed because every president gelts up to speed in january. >> that's why i asked you. a lot of people say you guys are so critical. i want to know in terms of other presidents where this particular issue stands? >> in terms of timing, we're not seeing that. in terms of whatnia is talking about that you can't have all those things and not ha

the document will also look to protect social security and medicare from any cuts.ll propose federal spending for the next fiscal year. and will call for spending cuts to several federal agencies. trump is speaking to a joint session of congress for the first time on tuesday he is expected to lay out his legislative priorities. Ñ there's a controversy surrounding a girls' high school wrestling champion in texas. the reason - the new champ is transitioning to become a boy. polo sandoval has the story. Ñ it's the dramatic end to a competitive and controversial weekend for mack beggs.the 17-year-old dallas-area high school student won the title of "champion" in the girl's state wrestling competition saturday.natsot: mix of cheers and boosa mix of cheers and boos were directed at the wrestler as he fell to his knees - appearing to soak-in the win.natsot: cheers and boos many in the audience feel beggs has an unfair advantage on his road to victory.beggs is a transgender athlete, born a girl transitioning to become a boy.he takes testosterone injections to make that tran

cheryl: new audit has reveal that had the social security security administration paid $1 billion toy number. the inspector general found that over the last decade the agency paid the money to 22,426 individuals that represent someone who is retired or disabled that can't manage the benefits themselves and it gets worse n a statement inspector general said, quote, unless it takes corrective action we estimate the fsa will pay about 182.5 million in benefits annually to representative payees who do not have their own social security number. the audit excuse me found the agency paid 853 million in benefits to individuals who had been terminated as representative payee, the checks kept coming to them going back as far as the year 2004. tax money, guys. rob: cheryl, thank you. facebook accused of censoring of free speech. her account was suspended over a post defending the bible stance on homosexuality. elizabeth johnson from ohio writes a blog called the activists mommy but facebook suspended public account after te when she shared her beliefs using a bible verse. facebook said that bro

the government tells you these illegals are paying taxes, social security. you give them a 1099 as an independent contractor, and you employ them. work --their he shoddy very shoddy work. the illegal does not pay any taxes. it is his responsibility to pay with the 1099. he does not pay anything. he ships a lot of that money back to mexico and south of the border. i don't know what you have to do to make -- they cite facts by the government like the one lady about crime going up and so forth. why don't you look at -- i wish you have that program again with the people from the heritage foundation and really going to this about the illegals better voting. once this investigation starts under jeff sessions, how many states are going to be investigated for the illegal voting that is going on. host: ok. our democratic line from louisiana. hello. caller: i am a 76-year-old black military veteran from the vietnam combat. for those that did not vote, they are going to pay the price. this election was to make america white again. saw in new orleans, this is a segregat

he broke his promise to working americans, went after vowing not to cut social security, medicare or medicaid during the campaign, he proposes to cut medicaid and chooses cabinet secretaries who spent their careers trying to eviscerate social security and medicare. one fact checker said that of the 60 explicit promises he made about his first 100 days, only 6 have been kept and 45 have no action taken whatsoever. so just to repeat, the first month of a trump presidentsy is less bang, less of a bang and more of a whimper. not much impact. but what he's done so far has shifted the burden off of the special interests and the wealthy and on to working families. the portions are small. the food is terrible. with respect to the speech tomorrow night, i fully expect the president to resort to the same populist message he used in his campaign in his inauguration, full of grandiose promises to the working people of america, to gloss over the reality of his administration. it will be the usual bluster and blame. populist platitudes will be a dime a dozen but the focus should be on the presiden

medicare, social security, these big entitlement programs. they will not be on the table.ll not be up for any cutting in his budget. of course this is a big break from paul ryan, republican speaker of the house and where the republican party's been the last few years, the president talked about it today. take a listen. >> well, i think that paul ryan and his whole group have been terrific. i just left paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, and you know, paul is working hard. health care is a very complex subject. if you do this it affects nine different things. >> so congressman, the message from paul ryan, the message from house republicans the last few years has been hey, if we do not reign in the costs of medicare, the spending on medicare and social security, we are heading towards fiscal catastrophe in this country. if a budget now comes down from donald trump it says we're not going to do anything on the cost of medicare and social security, can you support that? >> i can. you know, i have always said that america shook the hands of americans when they were 18 years old and

the republicans are trying to voucherize medicare and privatize social security. donald trump wants to eliminate overtime pay for people. donald trump wants to -- he