i'm a black man and animal social security. e thing they can do they can bring all the people on the border, they got security for medical and all that kind of stuff, the ones they want and once they do not want, they can throw them back out. [indiscernible] everybody talking on that phone line, give answers to solve the problems. when you call the show, have a suggestion to solve the problem. thank you. host: our next caller is rick in los angeles. you are on the line, what would you like to share this morning? caller: [inaudible] host: can you harris? -- can you hear us? caller: can you hear me now? host: now, i can hear you. caller: a wise man once said it is easier to for the people, then it is to convince the people they have been fold. it is easier to fool the people then it is easier to convince the people they have been fooled. play the clip from january 1995 at their president biden gave the crime bill that locked up a generation of black people. this is a con man and you country bumpkins keep voting for the democrats a

out social security.me off as an adult in the room, showing that he was eager to govern over the next 2 years in a bipartisan fashion. host: brian, what did you think of the speech, particularly the whole exchange with republicans? do you agree that biden came out looking good? >> both of us have national paulding that shows -- polling that shows disappointment. singling out a misleading thing from one senators release -- he has thwarted, to then use that to beta some of them are colorful republican members into being upset, it is sad we are not seeing people more eager to lead. a demagogue can use this for personal gain. host:host: we want to get to calls from our audience. for your questions or comments on the news of the week questions for carly cooperman or brian nienaber. if you are a republican, call us at (202) 748-8003. if you are a democrat -- us at (202) 748-8001. if you are a democrat, call (202) 748-8000. this is an article by the hill. it says "how the house gop blew up at the state of the un

they are covered by social security. we had 67 million insured people. during the past few months, the honorable government has provided medical coverage to all those who are not covered by medical insurance. in social security, direct and free treatment is very important , we had a development approach in this sector after the revolution. we are at your service as a consultant and dear retirees in the organization social security helps us. i mentally asked them that except for this statistic, for example, in 2072 , we have 20 hospital centers in 1972, and housh, for example, there are maybe 156, and also their clinics. i asked these friends several times. before the revolution, what statistics do you have in your mind that we did not reach more than 20 specialized medical centers? before the revolution , the number of specialized and sub-specialized hospital centers did not reach more than 20. today, we are proud to have more than 20. 400 hospitals and specialized clinics and clinics in service we provide more than one million inpatient services daily,

at 10,000 becoming eligible day, social security of congress -- if social security and congress does nothing, every year congress delays do something -- delays doing something it gets harder to make up the difference. harder in terms of the costs because social security needs to be paid for. a point i always make. i think one your listeners understand. social security is not an entitlement plan. this is a earned benefit. all they need to look at their federal insurance contribution. some like to call it tax. it is federal insurance contribution whose, yours. i think citizens know this and they understand it is a earned benefit they are at a gasp when they learned that congress has not done anything in over 50 years to enhance the program. we have 5 million people, 5 million fellow americans that get below poverty level checks from social security. having worked and paid into the system. 5 million, predominantly women of color, none the less it is 5 million americans in the poverty level. 12,000 800,000. how do you live in under 12,800? host: do you take speaker mccarthy at his word w

talking to somebody at social security -- calling, talking to somebody at social security.d an increase that has barely made up for some of the cuts called for by congress over the last few years. it is a shame. i testified once before the house ways and means committee about the long wait times when you called the 800 number, and that has not gotten much better. at the hearing i had my cell phone and i called the number at the beginning of the hearing. i was still on hold at the end of the hearing. to make a point that we do need to spend some more money to hire staff to improve the technology,, to open field offices to the public. i do agree with you on that. host: one more call in hot springs, south dakota, this is danielle. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. a question i have had for eight years -- ima baby boomer and i have been collecting -- i am a baby boomer and i started collecting social security 8 years ago. i have been working those 8 years. the social security representative said the first year, for the one year that i made $150,000 from a sett

i have a question on social security. they want to do away with social security.posed to live on if they do away with social security? host: do you think they are going to do away with social security? do you think it will go away? caller: that is what the republicans want. they want to do away with social security. even trump said that. you are talking about millions of people here in the united states. what are these people supposed to live off of? host: mccarthy and president biden are set to meet today to talk about the debt ceiling and this issue of spending cuts and concerns about cuts to social security and medicaid have come up as part of that discussion. it's this is the washington post, speaker mccarthy has said social security and medicare are quote off the table, every other program, including money for the military should be scrutinized for spending cuts and we have heard president biden saying he wants a clean debt ceiling raise, is not looking to negotiate spending cuts. we'll see what happens, they are set to meet today at 3:15 p.m. eastern time. j

we have a way to expand social security. we have social security 2100.t's john larson's bill in the house. it is a way to raise income threshold for bringing in more benefits and making social security able to continue to do the work social security in medicare continue to do the work that they need to do. we want to expand medicare. we want to provide dental vision and hearing for seniors. republicans want to cut it. that is the fundamental difference. >> we're gonna have you back and talk andrew detail about that proposal. meantime, thank you very much mary for joining us on the sunday. congresswoman pramila jayapal. coming up next, the race against time in turkey and syria while the death toll dramatically spikes again. is he looking at my hairline? my joint pain isn't too bad. well, it wasn't this morning. i hope i can get through this. is plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis making you rethink your everyday choices? otezla is a pill, not a cream or injection that can help people with plaque psoriasis achieve clearer skin. otezla is also proven to

earn, he don't pay social security taxes about that. the reason is because the designers of social security quantum a link how much you pay and to how much you get back. they didn't want people to pay much more than what they would get back so they wanted to link the two there are proposals in congress to raise the cap to basically say you pay social security taxes on income all the way up. if you do that, it would close about half of the long-term social security to put a couple of numbers on it. the social security deficit stabilizes about 1.8% of gdp by 2030s. getting rid of the cap eliminates 0.8% of gdp. 0.8 out of 1.8 cap, that could be part of the solution, it's only going to get you halfway there and that leaves things like the eligibility age and benefits for wealthy retirees that might be revisited to keep the system solvent. >> a question from chevelle on twitter this morning, why is there no talk about deficit and debt unless there's a democrat president? four years of extreme spending and one republican worried same with so

social security. all they, have to do with back when i was a child there was something that people called -- they didn't call it welfare. if you are broke, you got help from neighbors. it is so ridiculous. if they would stop this social security benefits, that has nothing to do with the social security fend that people pay over -- fund that people pay over their lives. host: go ahead, gene. guest: congratulations on being 95. that is quite a milestone. i wish you continued good health and prosperity. the social security system needs to be reformed because when it was started there were maybe 8, 10 people working for everyone retired person in the united states. now it is less than 3 people working for everyone retired person in the united states. it was built on the concept that payroll taxes that people pay that are currently working would be able to generate enough money to pay senior citizens. since people were living a lot longer, as you are and a lot of your peers, there is not enough revenue in

this year, what happened according to article 96 and 111 of the social security law was 57% plus 38 for those who received hugs and other levels, an unprecedented increase of 38% plus 515 thousand tomans. the increase in the salaries of dear pensioners happened, despite the fact that some people may say that due to the economic conditions , these two do not provide enough for their lives, and i am happy, but it is true, of course , this was a rare and unprecedented event. that we are at your service even we started paying the arrears that we had in the unsuccessful volume from november. the payment of the arrears for these loved ones started in floors. in your opinion, the amount that has been paid is large, but really, the government and the president have been in different meetings several times, paying attention to the livelihood of the support aid that should be it happened to the dear retirees and they are being emphasized and this approach will continue and we must try to generalize the discussion of the livelihood of these dear ones . it is one of our main duties. we must see, go

after all, we don't have other employers who owe the social security. we want it to be up to 10 times yes, we also have creditors for 40 thousand billion tomans from other employers, which we finally have according to our own requirements. i hope that the business sector will prosper, which of course has prospered . we have a good mother. we are with these loved ones. in these days of corona , we had more than three thousand billion tomans of loan and forgiveness of crimes for employers who had problems, and not the current model, when the situation of these loved ones has improved , they will pay off their debts, so that we can also use it for insurance . and especially dear retirees in a way they should do the best and how advanced and still is the gold that we have from the government, and the government in this one year and now, the collection of 1401 170 thousand billion tomans to settle the debt, our estimate is that in addition to this figure, by the end of the year, if the total let's subtract the demand and payment of the debt and the governmen

folks on fixed incomes relying on social security and medicare to get by, they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that's what my plan offers. folks on fixed incomes relying on social security and medicare to get by, they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that's what my plan offers. too many americans lay in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering, what happens if i get sick, if i get cancer or my wife gets breast cancer or we -- or the kids get really sick? what happens? what happens? are we going to have to sell the house? what are we going to do? how are we going to pay our bills? i know my dad did that when he lost insurance at the company he worked for. lost insurance at the company he worked for. look, i get it. i signed the inflation reduction act and took on the most powerful interests we've been fighting for years, pharma, to bring down healthcare costs so bring down healthcare costs so you can have a better night's sleep. [applause] although we passed it in the middle of last summer and we let [applause] although we passed it in the middle

million people, i.e. more than 50% of us , are covered by direct and indirect medical services, social security, service development despite the many bottlenecks that we have, a very good thing happened in the field of social insurance after the revolution, which was unprecedented before the revolution. it is a type of purely compulsory insurance and only having the employer order insurances for themselves. that government assistance for the first the burden was reached in the seventies and eighties, now there are workshops with less than five people, 440,000 people are under assistance for the development and development of the business sector, so that we can strengthen small businesses , government assistance for it, 440,000 workshops benefit from government assistance, carpet weavers' insurance the share that the government is helping, because the prosperity in the field of these businesses was the result of the fishermen's insurance, these grants and special insurances that were established after the revolution, which amounted to 2 million and 700 thousand people from this government assist

>> tonight president biden back on the road bringing the receipts of republicans comments on social security after last night's address where he took on his critics in realtime. then the plot twist of the house oversight committee meeting where republicans hope to focus on hunter biden, but we ended up focusing on trump's attempt to censor tweets. then the bombshell murder trial prompted by a bomb threat today mid testimony, a lot to cover as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i'm stephanie ruhle, president biden turning up the heat on republicans as he takes his state of the union message on the road. today he went to the key battleground state of wisconsin to pitch his vision of america and he leaned into the agenda that he laid out for us last night. as the new york times reports that includes using government programs to help boost the 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

[crowd booing] ron johnson and social security and medicare. quote, we should transfer everything so we have to consider everything every year. >> kevin mccarthy may be the least intelligent speaker of the house in history, but he is way smarter than marjorie taylor greene and the republican noise makers in the back of the room last night. he was constantly signaling them to be quiet. >> here in the peoples house, it's our duty to protect all the people's rights and freedoms. congress must restore the right. >> order! order! >> order! >> fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. [crowd booing] >> order! >> you've got it. >> it's your fault. >> yes, there is that mccarthy mouth movement that is supposed to quiet them down and failed. when marjorie taylor greene and the other hecklers called the president a liar for saying some republicans want to end social securities want to end social security, and others want to cut them, president biden pulled the entire republican party and house representatives into a public agreement it will

i'm not for cutting social security and medicare. he pro prosed it year after year after year to reduce medicare and social security. i have never done. that i don't believe in. that we have to preserve the benefits. >> you say he is twisting your words. he said some republicans want social security and medicare to sunset. you wrote, i suggest the following. all federal legislation sun sets in five years. of if the laws were keeping congress can pass it again. you are a republican. medicare and social security are federal legislation. and you said if it's worth keeping, congress can pass it again. but no one, i don't think, has confidence that if something comes up for a vote every five years that congress is going to be able to make sure it stays. especially something that vitally important to so many. zblr kaitlan, i've been clear. i'm not going to do it. and let's remember, just what, a few months ago, all democrats voted and joe biden signed a bill to cut $208 b80 billion ou medicare. >> that's not true, senator. we talked about

more than 2 million people in michigan are on social security or medicare.teresting dynamic in the room during the state of the union. president biden got republicans to agree, hands off social security and medicare. but ultimately, don't hands need to be on them to make sure that they're there for future generations. isn't it kind of irresponsible? >> i think it's very important that congress listens to the people that they are supposed to be serving and that they shore it up. people expect that. you know, we look at the full faith and credit of the united states, very much at risk right now. congress has a constitutional obligation not to -- to make sure that we don't default. i think these are really crucial as we look at going forward. i know the president is focused on that. i would love to see congress partner with him, these are things that benefit people all across the country, republicans, democrats, people that are agnostic are relying on them to get the job done. >> president biden is expected to launch his re-election campaign in the coming weeks

we put them on to social security. we promised. that makes a lot of sense looking forward. if you look at the broader budgetary picture and we don't -- rarely passes budget. if you do, keep in mind that we spent $6 per senior on everyone we spend for children. we definitely need more revenues. we need them to find important vestments. we don't bring our debt down. i think we should have a national debate about what the most important priorities are. are they making sure that bill gates gets all of his benefits as promised or might some of the new revenues go to other pressing needs like investing in human capital or younger kids. i would say we need to have a debate before we put all the money that we could race into social security without considering all the different priorities. >> once again narcy did mention the myth that we have left is raising the retirement age. what's wrong with raising the retirement age up a couple of years or three or five? especially when folks like me in our 50s, we still got a good 40, 5

but particularly with social security and medicare. republicans seem shocked when i took out the pamphlets they were using about cutting medicare and social security, read from senator scott's proposal. read from the proposal from the senator from wisconsin. they were offended, liar, liar! by the way, the last person who said that on the floor of the senate got censored by the congress, but there were about four, five, i don't know how many. i reminded them that florida's own rick scott is the guy who ran the senate campaign committee for republicans last year, had a plan to sunset -- maybe he's changed his mind. maybe he's seen the lord. but he wanted to sunset it. meaning if you don't reauthorize it, it goes away. sunset social security and medicare every five years. it's not likely to get voted out, but i'll tell you what, it's likely it got cut drastically if you had to do it every five years. the very idea the senator from florida wants to put social security and medicare on the chopping block every five years i find to be somewha

folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that's what my plan offers. to many americans, laying in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering what happens if i get sick or i get cancer or my wife gets breast cancer or the kids get really sick, what happens, we're going to have to sell the house, how are we going to pay our bills? i know my dad did that when he lost insurance at the company he worked for. look, i get it. i signed the inflation reduction act and took on the most powerful interests we have been fighting for years, pharma to bring down health care costs so you could have a better night's sleep. [ applause ] we passed it in the middle of last summer, and we let people know what was in it, no one saw it because it didn't take effect until january 1st of this year, not a minute too soon. one in ten americans have diabetes. millions need insulin to stay alive. insulin has been around for a hundred years. as a matter of fact, the guy who invented it didn't pate

, 5.8 billion and social security checks. we have the numbers for rhode island, nevada, new mexico. so, all of these folks would be at risk as their retirement savings is worth much, much less. veterans across the country, they rely on their government for their disability, health care, pensions. they could be left with no support. medicare reimbursements for our hospitals would go way down. health care treatment will be worse. health care treatment would be more expensive. and there would be massive layoffs at so many of our hospitals, particularly in rural areas. many of my counties, the hospital is the largest employer. food on the table. 42 million americans get it. and so, we can think of scenarios. i think of a senior in albany who can't afford the rent because there social security was delayed, or disabled veterans in baltimore, who won't know if he or she could get the care he or she needs. a parent in albuquerque who relies on snap and doesn't know if they can feed their kids. a family in bristol who just bought thei

insurance coverage for carpet weavers, seasonal and construction workers, including important social securityservices, after the islamic revolution, the growth of social insurance was closed . the social insurance of drivers was formed, the drivers of intra-urban and extra-urban transport, we have the law of self-employed and self-employed, to all the people who own businesses or have employees who become employers . those who work alone become self-employed. before i can't go to work today due to some reasons. they continue to work on their own . we don't have freight insurance. we have beekeepers insurance. we have fishermen's insurance. we have foreigner's insurance. we have insurance for iranians abroad. they went abroad during this time that they are not in the country, but the insurance platform for their loved ones is around 4,700,800 people. in fact , the officials of the islamic republic of iran are always and periodically insured over the insurance coverage of the members of the society and the eradication of poverty caused by the costs of treatment emphasized that none it is not ir

. >> a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. if that is your dream, i am your nightmare. yamiche: challenging republicans on the issue of entitlements in key battleground states. [booing] following a state of the union unlike any other. plus, former vice president mike pence is spoenaed by the special counsel investigating the effort to overturn the 2020 election. next. ♪ >> this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- >> for 25 years,onsumer cellular's goal has been to provide wireless service that helps people communicate and connect. we offer a variety of no-contract plans, and our u.s.-based customer service team can find one the fits you. to learn more, visit consumercellular.tv. >> additional funding is provided by -- koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation -- committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. sandra and carl delay-magnuson. rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station f

social security would be insolvent by 2034. on social security specifically, cannot be fixed by raising the cap? remind us what that means. guest: people pay social security taxes. you do not pay above 100 62 $5,000. the reason you don't is because the designers of social security wanted to keep a link of how much you pay in to how much you get back my they didn't want people to pay much more in their working life than they would get back. they wanted to link the two. there's ideas to raise the cap to say you will pay social security taxes on income all the way up. if you do that, it would close about half of the long-term social security gap. the social security deficit stabilizes at about 1.8 percent of gdp by the 20 30's. getting rid of the cap eliminates about .08%. that could be part of the solution. it will only get you about halfway there. that leaves things like the eligibility age and benefits for wealthier retirees at that have to be revisited as well in order to keep the system solvent. host: a question on twitter to

host: he talked about social security. that might be on your list of programs that should be boosted or cut. call us on the lines that best represent you. you can text us at (202)-748-8003 and you can post on our social media. reaction from members of congress yesterday on the budget and debt issues. this is the fed majority leader chuck schumer on his twitter, chaos in the house on the republican side. each day gets closer to default. that would hurt americans badly but no closer to a republican plan to lift the debt ceiling. house republicans speaker mccarthy, show is your plan. representative richard neal saying, while the president introduced the budget that would decrease the national deficit by $2 trillion over the next 10 years, republicans are supporting adding $3 trillion to the deficit. extending the trump tax cuts and repealing reforms to lower drug prices also saying the republican playbook would hand out money to the megarich. can the speaker of the house on his twitter -- kevin mccarthy on his twitter yesterd

medicare in 2026 and social security in 2030.se things are the benefits are reduced. that's a fact. that's not a law that anyone is putting forward. >> but you do acknowledge there's republicans who do want to sunset every federal legislation after five years and that there is a senator who want that after a year to turn it to discretionary. >> this is important because -- yes, it is. >> if congress does not work together. i'm old enough to remember when senator monahan, back in the -- i think it was 1983 or '84, got together, and came up with a plan to save social security. it affected people my age because then when i get to age 65, the retirement age now is 67. okay. it was a long time in phasing in. but they came together and worked out a problem because they saw what was dead ahead. and what was dead ahead was a reduction in benefits for people depending on those programs. there's no reason in the world we can't have those types of discussions. but we can't have them if people are talking from political talking points. >> i

or reduce spending on social security, reduce benefits from social security. i will call that a lie. just because you repeat it multiple times does not make it a mact. i haven't -- a fact. i haven't heard one, i actually asked around my entire delegation, my entire caucus, does anybody want to reduce spending on social security? not one person said yes. as a matter of fact, everybody said no. as a caucus we've discussed this multiple times. both on the floor and in conference. and we have all unanimously said we are not going to reduce spending on social security. co mr. mccormick: as a matter of fact, i would ask someone to tell me where this secret statement exists because i haven't seen it. i want to take this opportunity to express that just because you say it doesn't make it fact. and the fact is no republican is talking about reducing spending on social security as a caucus. thank you. and with that, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. by direction. house rep

republican party and the democratic party have vowed not to touch medicare and social security. that also has backed them into a corner. >> here's the thing, a.b. if republicans wanted to say you know what, after further thought after careful consideration, we don't want to touch the social security but that is not what they are doing. they are saying over, and over we didn't say that. and knowing that there is content out there that this proves it. watch this. >> i think that we do need to reform social security and medicare. >> the wealthier people are going to have to take a little less in benefits, younger people living longer civil have to adjust the age once again. >> we can work on prioritizing defense spending but that is nibbling around the margins, if we really want to talk about the debt and spending it's the entitlements program. >> a.b., entitlement reform has been their jam for years, just own it. >> exactly! and you can see the rift between the defense hawks like congressman waltz in the others who were saying that everything has to be under the table, all leverag

it's an attempt to try and mask the fact that social security since franklin roosevelt signed it into law 80 years ago is a social insurance program. if you don't believe me, then look at your paycheck because what your paycheck shows is that the withholding for social security is separate from yawr federal taxes which goes into the on -- your federal taxes which goes into the operating budget of this country and designated as the federal insurance contribution act, fica, for old age insurance. again, it is an insurance program. and it provides coverage for people who are retired because they have hit retirement age. for young people who have lost a parent, or for people on disability. and again, if we were responsible about trying to deal with the fact that social security is going to be challenged in 202323, it's going to have a shortfall. it's not going to go bankrupt which the press sometimes says. there is a solution to that which is to lift the earnings cap which today basically anyone who earns income above $160,000, suddenly doesn't have to pay into the social security system.

talk about social security.ocial security gets an increase why can't we do that also with the minimum wage? this is needed there a lot of them as other struggling right now for six hours for eggs, corporations. i commend you for what you're doing because you are helping ag lot of families that should be spread across thehe country. >> that's a viewer i forgot the state but go ahead. >> and very grateful to have the opportunity to be with you this morning and have talked about guaranteed basico me income. as i said the most important the best investments we can make in our own people. this is the way we can invest in our own. i hope other cities, towns, villages, counties will consider this kind ofsi initiative we cat make the case and it would persuade the federal government this is something we ought to do. >> of the end of the pilot what would you like to see happen? what results would you like to see?o >> i want to be able to share with not just the people of cook licounty the state of illinois t across the c

were announced, of which 50 million people, which is about 53 % of the society, are covered by social securityurance, 17 % are covered by other social insurances, and 100% are covered by health insurance . the main insured people of the social security organization are 15 million 400 thousand people, the victory of the revolution is 36 million people, and currently the growth of our population is 2 and 3 tenths of that population. a very good event is the workshops and economic activities in in fact, employers started working seven times compared to four decades ago, the number of pensioners is in the legal service provision system and they get a lifetime pension. in the death and retirement disability sectors, the number of pensioners has increased by more than 28 times. well , this is a very good thing. it happened while the population growth was not related to him that had this insurance coverage ratio. today, thanks to the revolution, about 70% of the world is covered by basic social insurances . we are in 100% treatment. million population covered by social insurance to date before the re

if everybody paid social security they should pay social security all that money. should pay that half. we would never have to worry about social security again. i would suggest when they write the bill for people, the new money that comes in. the employees should go into social security and the employer's should go for the next 10 years. if we do that, thank you. host: that was bill in new jersey. we've got about five minutes left. one of the story that point you toward this morning, the latest look at the california senate race in 2024. barbara lee is planning to announce her campaign for senate by the end of february. she said she's timing her announcement to coincide with plaque history month. she is poised to be the first black woman that two of her colleagues have already entered. with the unique top two primary system, her entrant could set up a heated fight that could divide democrats in the most populous state. lee is 76. porter is 49. they represent of's are white. tiant and feinstein -- dianne feinstein has filed paperwork to run for reelection in her se

as part of that social security and medicare.proposed specific cuts of those programs, but i have talked to them a lot about the national debt, and he is out forefront on the national debt. he does think government needs to shrink, and i am waiting to see what his proposals will be specifically for how he would deal with medicare and social security. other than that there is no plan. there is not a full proposal from democrats or republicans. senator joe manchin said he wants to try to propose a commission come up with the white house initially said we are not going to talk about that, at least not as part of the national debt proposal. we have a major problem looming that is coming fast. there is no plan yet or discussion either. geoff: i learned so much whenever i talk to you. it is go to see you. ♪ amna: in two pas to not, heart disease and the obesity epidemic. no disease kills more americans annually than heart disease. at least half of all americans are at risk because of factors such as obesity, elevated blood pressure, hi

if everybody paid social security they should pay social security all that money.loyers should pay that half. we would never have to worry about social security again. i would suggest when they write the bill for people, the new money that comes in. the employees should go into social security and the employer's should go for the next 10 years. if we do that, thank you. host: that was bill in new jersey. we've got about five minutes left. one of the story that point you toward this morning, the latest look at the california senate race in 2024. barbara lee is planning to announce her campaign for senate by the end of february. she said she's timing her announcement to coincide with plaque history month. she is poised to be the first black woman that two of her colleagues have already entered. with the unique top two primary system, her entrant could set up a heated fight that could divide democrats in the most populous state. lee is 76. porter is 49. they represent of's are white. tiant and feinstein -- dianne feinstein has filed paperwork to run for reelection in

reporter: you have medicare and social security off the table. is there any particular ebb reason -- for democrats it is off the table, correct? mr. jeffries: we are going to defend social security and medicare. reporter: why isn't medicaid in that category? mr. jeffries: everything that impacts the economic well-being and health is off the table in the context of paying bills that the congress has already incurred, which means meeting our obligation to protect the full faith and credit of the united states of america in the context of the debt ceiling. at the same time, what we have said is that there is a budget process and there is an appropriations process. and we are willing to have a conversation with the other side of the aisle about how to invest and making life better for every day americans, how to invest in the middle class, how to invest in all those americans who aspire to be part of the middle class. but in order to have that conversation, that discussion, the extreme maga republicans have to put their cards on the table. show us yo

raising the retirement age, same with medicare, privatizing social security.easy attack, because we've been here over many years with republicans and social security in these very popular entitlement programs. so, i think it puts biden in a good position, not only going into 2024, but going into these debt ceiling negotiations as well because you have republicans repeatedly saying this is not what we want to do. this is not what we want to do, but if you're explaining, you're sort of losing, i think. >> mitch mcconnell views this and this feud with him and rick scott has now been going on for quite some time, and it's very, very heated, by the way, behind the scenes. aides to both camps are very agitated by all of it, and mcconnell views this as a massive unforced error. i mean, why do this? why put his party in this position when clearly the mood of the country, especially in recent years, has been so incredibly populist? i mean, this is something that helped donald trump win the white house. this has been an area -- i mean, when biden said at the state of th

, medicare, here is senator abobiden. >> when i argued frees social security i meant social security as well, i maebt medicare and medicaid i am -- i meant every single solitary thing, in the government. not only tried it once i tried it twice, i tried it a third time i tried it a fourth time. >> joining me with hot topic to do to do nancy tengler lou basenese you're reaction. lou: i love video accounts we need transparency, accountability we are part of that want action shop rhetoric there are things real problems from the border, to fiscal policy budgets there are things need to get addressed, . maria: we want honesty, todd the social security trust fund, about insolvent by 2035, 12 years from right now today's 55-year-olds reach normal retirement age youngest turn 74, you've got inflation timeline looking at obviously, has inflation so elevated 6 1/2% but social security is one of those areas perhaps should be looked at for i don't know how you do it, but kevin mccarthy says off the table something has to be done be honest with ourselves it is going abrupt. >> have i have never ha

social security goes bankrupt in 12 years.the president took his message to florida today, promising to protect the social programs crucial to seniors. pres. biden: folks on fixed incomes rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. i know that a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. well, let me say this. if that's your dreami'm your nightmare. geoff: and following all of this closely is our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins. so, lisa, let's dispense with the politics just for a second, shall we, and talk about the underlying issue. medicare and social security both face the same basic problem, in that people are living a lot longer than they did when these programs were created. where are we with the solvency of both of these programs? lisa: let's take a minute to look at it. so this is according to the trustees for these various programs. first, let's start with medicare. right now, if congress does not then, medicare will

social security, anything. rising debt payments pose a challenge for that. and there is a longer-term challenge which shows up in the 10 year budget window. our projection is exhausted in 2032 within the 10 year window. social security benefits will be more than 20% smaller if scheduled if they allot what is paid after adjusting the debt payment. the bottom line is that the changes in fiscal policy must be made to address the rising cost of interest payment, revenue, and to mitigate adverse consequences of the high rise of debt limit. i will stop there and a look forward to you talking, heather. heather: there's so much to unpack there is such a sense of urgency. this is beyond the debt limit but on so many people's minds will be potentially do not have enough money for the u.s. government to pale the bills you could say it could be any time between july and september. can you summarize for people across this nation how disastrous is it if we go beyond that x date? swagel: thank you for mentioning that. wednesday afternoon is when we released our budget econ

it is a lifeline, social security. as we know it -- they will wait decades to achieve their goals. they will not stop. the police do not change, just our tactics. >> i was going to say, fun fact for our viewers, dean obeidallah is the world record holder for the most times he has been heckled as a comedian. >> that is just you heckling me. >> [laughter] >> fernand, the big thing here is fresh on the heels of his feud with biden, you had senator rick scott foot at what he is calling the protect our seniors act, which is like the irony of all ironies. and in this press release, he claimed that he has been fighting since they won to protect and preserve programs like social security and medicare. and now it is unclear where his previous proposal fit into this plan. but we know what mitch mcconnell thinks of it. what do you think florida voters will make of the senators backtracking here? because mitch mcconnell is like, this is not a republican plan. this is a rick scott plan. >> well, it is certainly a problem. there is

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it will be my objective to phase out social security. >> my objective to phase out social security, pull it up by the roots. that sends pretty unequivocal to me. president biden was too polite to specifically in the other republicans that he was talking about, but we are not. senators rick scott of florida, and ron johnson of wisconsin, those two gentlemen. scott, who ran the failed republican attempt to retake the senate, in fact released a plan, written in print and everything, which included the provision to yes, sunset all laws requiring them to be re-approved by congress every five years, including medicare, medicaid, and social security. here's the obvious point the republicans will not admit, if they sunset those programs, they're probably not coming back. do you really think that today 's republican party, right now, would support reauthorizing a massive transformative series of social spending programs as they currently exist, without getting, changing, reforming them? of course not. scott's plane was so indefensible, even fox news took him to task for it. >> that would raise ta

i will give you social security but let's cut snap benefits.give you medicare, we just can't expand it. that kind of negotiation is bizarre to me. last i checked, poverty doesn't have a color red or blue. people need social security in kentucky, illinois, oklahoma, and certainly in georgia. amy: i want to bring dean baker into the conversation, senior economist at the center for economic and policy research. his most recent book is titled "rigged: how globalization and rules of the modern economy were structured to make the rich richer." if you can take off from this issue of social security and medicare as republicans were shouting "liar" and president biden, and then talk about president biden talking about the billionaires tax and also increasing tax on those who make $400,000 or more. >> i had to say it was great to hear president biden stand up and defend social security, mecare. i have been around long enough, remember president clinton was not shing it but was willing to consider cuts to social security and medicare in the same with pres