GOP Senator Says Party ‘Not Being Honest’ About Social Security Cuts
John Curtis said Republicans need to be forthright about their plans to overhaul the program.
A top Republican official says Republicans are not being forthright with voters on Social Security.
“We’re not being honest with people,” Sen. John Curtis told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “We’re not being honest when we look people in the eye and say we’re not going to touch it.”
“That’s not being honest with the American people, and I think that makes them not trust us when we say something that they just know is not true,” he added.
Curtis’s remarks come in the wake of troubling comments by Elon Musk, who has described Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” and said it is “the big one to eliminate.”
President Donald Trump has said he would preserve the entitlement program, which 70 million Americans rely on.
The GOP Senator further claimed there was no need to “impact the people” who rely on the program but that there need to be discussions about “moving some of the variables around” in order to ensure it remains solvent.
“The sooner we do it, the less dramatic it has to be,” he said. “If we don’t do it, we have worse decisions thrust upon us.”
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