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Trump and Price at odds

Schumer
Charles Schumer

Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

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Not a weak point

Murphy
Patrick Murphy

Says Marco Rubio "said Social Security and Medicare have ‘weakened us as a people.’ "

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, October 27th, 2016

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Partial privatization still counts as privatization

AFSCME
AFSCME

"Because as a Senator Toomey stood up for Wall Street. He wanted to privatize Social Security and invest it in the stock market. Wall Street would make billions in fees even if the stock market crashed. "

— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, October 21st, 2016

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A different kind of salary cap

Grayson
Alan Grayson

Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, April 28th, 2016

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Might be on high side

Sanders
Bernie Sanders

"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, September 21st, 2015

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Accurately quotes study, but part of methodology questioned

Sanders
Bernie Sanders

"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

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Methodology has issues, but it's in the ballpark

Huckabee
Mike Huckabee

"Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 4th, 2015

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Not permanent as in forever

Johnson
Ron Johnson

Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, December 19th, 2014

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What a difference 58 years makes

Facebook posts
Facebook posts

Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

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Entitlements are big debt drivers

Rubio
Marco Rubio

"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."

— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, November 22nd, 2013

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A projection, not a certainty

Mandel
Josh Mandel

Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."

— PolitiFact Ohio on Thursday, February 21st, 2013

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Congressional Research Service study documented cuts

Nelson
Bill Nelson

Says Connie Mack’s Penny Plan would cut "over $200 billion out of Medicare, over $1 trillion out of Social Security. ... $3 trillion out of defense."

— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

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75 years from NOW, not 2033.

Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse

"For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years."

— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, August 26th, 2012

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Robinson has also called to increase Social Security payments

DeFazio
Peter DeFazio

Art Robinson says "Social Security should be ended through attrition."

— PolitiFact Oregon on Friday, August 10th, 2012

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It may even be higher now

Santorum
Rick Santorum

"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 8th, 2012

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Yes, but retirees and those near retirement would be unaffected

Redfern
Chris Redfern

Says Mitt Romney supports a plan "to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of Social Security."

— PolitiFact Ohio on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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Older Americans hanging in there

Maddow
Rachel Maddow

"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.

— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 19th, 2011

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His 2010 book isn't explicit, but strongly suggests it

Romney
Mitt Romney

Says that in his book, Rick Perry said that "Social Security is unconstitutional."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 12th, 2011

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Trust fund should be flush, but Congress tapped the pot

Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich

"Social Security didn’t cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis."

— PolitiFact Ohio on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

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Newt is almost on the money

Gingrich
Newt Gingrich

Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Friday, June 24th, 2011