Trump has called on the record for «no cuts» and for the elimination of taxes on Social Security
Vice President Kamala Harris wrongly described former President Donald Trump’s policies on Social Security during a North Carolina rally Thursday — saying the Republican presidential nominee “intends to cut” payments when he actually has called for “no cuts” and for the elimination of taxes on the entitlement.
“He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare,” the Democratic nominee said at a rally in Charlotte, her first since Tuesday night’s ABC News debate against Trump in Philadelphia.
About 67 million Americans receive Social Security payments — of whom 58.6 million are retirees, 5.8 million are survivors of deceased spouses or parents and 8.5 million are disabled — making fear of cuts a potentially significant motivator for a wide swath of voters in the Nov. 5 election.
The Trump campaign’s official platform — ratified at the Republican convention in July — flouts long-standing calls from fiscal conservatives to slim the social safety net, saying the 45th president would “fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.”
Trump’s plan to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, which would effectively boost the value of those benefits, was not included in the party platform, but is a common campaign-trail pledge.
Harris has not stated her position on Trump’s call to eliminate taxes on Social Security payouts, though she has endorsed his separate proposal to eliminate taxes on tipped income.
“We will have no tax on Social Security and no tax on tips,” Trump said Aug.
