ICYMI: Rep. Dave Min: Republicans’ Plan to Slash Social Security is a “Bait and Switch”

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, Representative Dave Min (CA-47) tore into the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans’ plan to slash funding for Social Security. Rep. Min appeared on MSNBC’s The Weekend and NewsNation’s The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt. 

KEY MOMENTS:

• “[Republicans] did not have a mandate to cut Social Security, to go after huge programs to enact Project 2025. They ran on an agenda [...] of lowering the cost to eggs and not enacting Project 2025. So this is what we call a bait and switch. I used to be an SEC prosecutor, as a law professor, dealing with financial regulation issues. This is a classic scam where you promise people one thing, and then once they walk in the door, you give them something else. And that is what we're seeing right now, is they're focused on everything except lowering the price of eggs right now, and breaking the law a lot in the process.” MSNBC

• “People are paycheck to paycheck in my district. It's a very expensive area. And I ran into a 77 year old widow who's telling me that she doesn't know what she’d do. She's beside herself at the prospect of missing even one paycheck. [...] So, people are freaked out. I don't know where this is going. But again, it helps to understand that this was never about efficiency. It's always about finding $1.6 trillion in spending cuts.” MSNBC

• “I also want to point out what [House GOP Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington] said about Social Security, because when he talks about mandatory cuts, mandatory spending, that's a fancy way of saying the programs that are not authorized every year by Congress. Programs that are Social Security, Medicare and a lot of veteran’s health care. And you heard him say again, very opaquely, we need to bend the curve on mandatory spending. What he really meant is that we need to have major cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” NewsNation

• “This is not about efficiency, okay? This is about finding $1.6 trillion in spending cuts as the chair, again, kind of alluded to, so that they can justify $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. And that's what this is about, those tax cuts, as you know, are geared primarily to the richest people in the world.” NewsNation

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