00:00Okay.
00:01Ron?
00:02Do you want to come over?
00:03Or all of you?
00:04All of them.
00:05We're here to take questions about the Social Security war room.
00:06Yes, sir.
00:07Yeah, I wanted to give you guys a chance to respond.
00:08Elon Musk told Fox News last week, he said, quote, as a result of the work of Doge, legitimate
00:09recipients of Social Security will receive more money, not less money.
00:10He basically said you guys were lying in your accusations against him.
00:11What do you make of this?
00:12So where are Elon Musk's receipts for that?
00:27Elon Musk has cut access to Social Security for tens of millions of people who are legally
00:35entitled to those benefits.
00:37That is a benefit cut.
00:40And I don't care what words Elon Musk wants to use.
00:42It is clear that is what he has done.
00:45And we know that was exactly his intention, because he said the quiet part out loud.
00:51He intends to get rid of the Social Security system.
00:55He has said so.
00:56It is time for us to pay attention, not just as Democrats.
01:00We are on the case here, not just as seniors who take advantage of the benefits that they
01:05are legally entitled to.
01:07But as a nation, we all need to stand up and get rid of Elon Musk and tell Donald Trump
01:15to keep his hands off our Social Security.
01:19And the reality is what he's doing is so unpopular.
01:25And the American people have caught on, and he's trying to play games to cover it up.
01:30For example, he knows that the phone changes are enormously unpopular.
01:34So late last week, he made this big show of saying that they were delaying the change
01:40for all of two weeks and exempting some groups.
01:45And they went out and made huge fanfare as if all the phone policies, which people were
01:50so angry about, had somehow been changed.
01:53And in effect, they made this itty-bitty change, and we tried to tell the American people,
01:58and this is what the war room is going to do, hey, they're gaslighting the American
02:03people and families by misrepresenting what's going on.
02:07Can you talk a little bit more about the goals of the war room and what we should expect from the group?
02:12Sure, I'm glad you do this, but does anyone else want to weigh in?
02:15Go ahead.
02:16You want to?
02:17Anybody?
02:18Go ahead.
02:19Oh, okay.
02:20All right.
02:21Okay.
02:22Look, 100% of the Democrats and independents are laser-focused on this issue.
02:29We are fighting back alongside tens of millions of Americans.
02:33The war room is about getting that effort organized.
02:36It is about oversight that we are obligated to do as members of the United States Senate.
02:42It is about having a place to bring the stories so we can have all of the American people
02:49privy to what we hear when we're back home, so they can hear the stories about what it
02:54means that you may not be able to afford rent, that you may not be able to afford food, and
03:00to get those stories out.
03:03We will use this war room as an opportunity to focus the energy around saving our Social
03:10Security.
03:11And understand this, when American people get a chance to weigh in on Social Security,
03:18there's a lot of energy, and not just a lot of energy to preserve the status quo, a lot
03:23of energy to make Social Security stronger.
03:26And that is what Democrats fight for.
03:29It is time to strengthen the Social Security, not let Musk and Trump kill it.
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