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‘We will always protect your Social Security’: Trump backs off entitlement reform

By Nihal Krishan
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‘We will always protect your Social Security’: Trump backs off entitlement reform

President Trump said during his State of the Union address that he would “always protect” Medicare and Social Security, despite saying just last month that he would be open to cutting the entitlement programs.

In late January, during an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, when Trump was asked if cuts to entitlements would ever be in consideration, he answered yes.

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