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Don’t say you want to ‘privatize’ Social Security. Say you want to break it up.
Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it.
Bessent tries to walk back comments suggesting Social Security could be privatized
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...
Bessent Brags: We’ve Got a ‘Backdoor’ to Privatize Social Security
“In a way, it is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” Bessent said at a Breitbart event in Washington, Politico ...
Here’s a Better Plan for Retirement Than Social Security
Bessent was more right the first time, only I would suggest tackling Social Security head on. If done right, private ...
Secretary Bessent's Social Security remarks spark AARP outcry
AARP says Social Security has a critical mission for retirees. The AARP argued that Social Security should not be viewed as ...
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AARP Condemns U.S. Treasury Secretary’s Comments on Privatizing Social Security
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Bessent calls Trump Accounts 'backdoor' for privatizing Social Security. Are you at risk?
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent comments about using Trump Accounts as a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...
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All the reasons privatizing Social Security would be a terrible idea
Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set off a firestorm this week when he said that the ...
White House insists Trump newborn accounts won’t ‘substitute’ Social Security
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been criticized by Democrats after he said the new Trump newborn accounts are a "backdoor way to privatize Social Security." ...
Bessent’s latest gaffe exposes how hollow Trump’s ‘populism’ really is
The Social Security programme has long been known as the “third rail” in American politics, after the electrified third rail ...
Chuck Schumer Says Scott Bessent 'Slipped' And 'Told The Truth' About Trump's Social Security Privatization Plan
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's new children's savings program "is a back door for privatizing Social Security," a remark at a Breitbart News forum that ...
Opinion
Scott Bessent got a little too honest about the GOP's plan for Social Security
The pushback was so fierce that Bessent backpeddled immediately, both on cable news and social media. The Trump Accounts, he told CNBC, would be a “supplement to Social Security ...