The budgets Mulvaney submitted to Congress on behalf of the Trump administration called for some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare and $64 billion to Social Security Disability Insurance.
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Michael Grunwald’s profile of Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for Politico starts with an extraordinary anecdote — seemingly sourced to Mulvaney himself — about how he tricked Donald Trump into violating his pledge to avoid proposing any cuts to Social Security.
According to Grunwald, Mulvaney — a very ideologically orthodox conservative who hates the idea of spending money on domestic social assistance programs — knew that Trump’s campaign promises were a problem for him. But he charged ahead anyway by bringing a big list of proposed cuts to a meeting at the Oval Office:
“Look, this is my idea on how to reform Social Security,” the former South Carolina congressman began.
“No!” the president replied. “I told people we wouldn’t do that. What’s next?”
“Well, here are some Medicare reforms,” Mulvaney said.
“No!” Trump repeated. “I’m not doing that.”
“OK, disability insurance.”This was a clever twist. Mulvaney was talking about the Social Security Disability Insurance program, which, as its full name indicates, is part of Social Security. But Americans don’t tend to think of it as Social Security, and its 11 million beneficiaries are not the senior citizens who tend to support Trump.
“Tell me about that,” Trump replied.
“It’s welfare,” Mulvaney said.
“OK, we can fix welfare,” Trump declared.via Vox.
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Mick Mulvaney was just chosen as Trump’s Chief of Staff. He has a history of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare. He now has the ear of the President.
President Donald Trump’s budget chief said repeatedly this week that when people think of Social Security, retirement insurance is the only thing that comes to mind ― not disability insurance.
A “welfare program for the long-term disabled,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Tuesday, “is not what most people would consider to be Social Security.”
Social Security is best known as retirement insurance, but plenty of people are aware that it’s also disability insurance. Forty-three percent of survey respondents said they knew someone who received disability or survivors’ benefits from Social Security, according to a 2010 poll by AARP. (Asked if they knew someone simply “on Social Security,” more than two-thirds said they did.)
via Huffington Post.
Related Reading:
- Trump Budget Shatters President’s Promise on Social Security, Medicaid.
- The President’s promise not to touch Social Security was officially revealed to be a sham today. Trump’s proposed 2018 budget slashes $64 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Some media outlets have let the President off the hook by saying the budget does not cut Social Security benefits.
President Trump on Friday abruptly named Mick Mulvaney, currently the director of the Office of Management and Budget, as acting White House chief of staff, elevating a conservative ideologue with congressional experience to steer the administration through a treacherous phase.
via Washington Post.
Related Reading:
Mick Mulvaney has been wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare for years. He now has the ear of the President.
Mulvaney Actively Subverting Trump’s Promises on Social Security and Medicare.
Mulvaney is, in effect saying, we have to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to save them, which is patently wrong. The two programs could be kept solvent deep into the 21st century through modest and manageable measures that we have detailed many times since last Fall, with no benefit cuts.
Did you miss Behind the Headlines this week?
We discussed:
- President Trump’s budget and it’s impact on seniors, Social Security Disability Insurance, and Medicaid.
- Medicare Advantage and it’s troubles in Florida.
- Mick Mulvaney and his attacks on SSDI.
You can watch it here.
It’s unfortunate that in a desperate attempt to fill the White House chief of staff position vacated by General John Kelly, President Trump turned to an avowed ‘entitlement reformer.’ The new acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, is an outspoken fiscal hawk committed to cutting Social Security and Medicare. This should be of concern to seniors and their advocates.
Vox called the former South Carolina Congressman, current director of the Office of Management and Budget, and temporary head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “a very ideologically orthodox conservative who hates the idea of spending money on domestic social assistance programs.”
As budget director, Mulvaney pressured the president to cut Social Security and Medicare – despite Trump’s campaign promise “not to touch” either program. In fact, the budgets Mulvaney submitted to Congress on behalf of the Trump administration called for some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare and $64 billion to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
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President Trump and Mulvaney on SSDI
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney: OK, disability insurance [SSDI].
President Trump: Tell me about that.
Mick Mulvaney: It’s welfare.
President Trump: OK, we can fix welfare.
Sure enough, the Trump budget plan that Mulvaney unveiled a few weeks later would cut about $70 billion in disability benefits over a decade, mostly through unspecified efforts to get recipients back to work.
via Politico
Disability Insurance is Part of Social Security Whether Mick Mulvaney
Likes It or Not.via Entitled to Know.
Mulvaney, who supports Social Security and Medicare reforms, told CNBC ‘we’re working on’ persuading Trump to embrace entitlement reform, including changes to Social Security Disability Insurance.
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney was on CNBC recently speaking about Social Security and SSDI.
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