In his first public speech since leaving the White House, Joe Biden violently criticized his successor Donald Trump, accusing him of undermining the foundations of the American social state. “It’s not yet 100 days and this new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction,” said the former president at a social security conference held in Chicago on Tuesday.
Aged 82, Joe Biden has headally targeted Donald Trump’s policy towards Social Security, a pillar of the American retirement system which pays services to nearly 68 million American citizens. “They attack social security with ax, dismissing 7,000 civil servants, including the most experienced,” he denounced. According to him, this strategy aims to “offer huge tax cuts to billionaires”.
“A bond of confidence between the State and the people”
The former president, often criticized for having been slow to pass the torch to Kamala Harris in the last presidential campaign, insisted on the importance of preserving this system: “These are not only retirement pensions. It is a question of honoring a fundamental bond of confidence between the State and the people. »»
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Joe Biden also attacked the appointment, in February, of an “antifraude expert” at the head of the agency. He denounced a desire for ideological dismantling, embodied in particular by Elon Musk, commissioned by Donald Trump to reduce the size of the federal state. In this speech of almost thirty minutes mixing gravity and humor features, Joe Biden also warned that “Social Security deserves to be protected for the good of the whole nation. »»
