Ex-Obama campaign advisor: Social Security was working well

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00:00Okay, Spencer, Trump is doing something about it.

00:03Why didn't President Biden do something about it?

00:05He's a bit late.

00:06As I say, President Biden did.

00:07He improved the efficiency of the Social Security Department and made sure that it did work

00:11better for people.

00:12And by and large, it actually does work amazingly well.

00:15Those checks go out.

00:17The people who are entitled to them receive them reliably month after month after month.

00:22And if they have a problem until recently, they'd be able to get somebody on the phone.

00:25They might have to wait.

00:26Now, under the current plan, they won't be able to get somebody on the phone at all.

00:30They might be required to come in person using a walker or a wheelchair, as we've seen happening.

00:38This whole idea that somehow the entitlement programs are riven with waste, fraud, and

00:44abuse is a real hobby horse that's been around for decades.

00:48Now this, again, doesn't mean that these systems shouldn't be made more efficient or that we

00:52should not address things like the coming shortfall in the Social Security Trust Fund.

00:56But every time people go looking to find this mythical monster of enormous waste, fraud,

01:01and abuse in the federal government, they don't find it.

01:04They will find inefficiency.

01:06And there are ample opportunities to reform systems.

01:09And this has been pursued under President Obama's administration as well, and notably

01:13under President Clinton.

01:14This is one of the things Vice President Gore was in charge of with the whole Reinventing

01:19Government initiative.

01:20So there is potential there for improvement.

01:21There always is.

01:22It's not what we're seeing here.

01:23It was not what we're seeing here.

01:24It was not what we're seeing here.