Trump official makes NIGHTMARE public confession

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00:00I'm not sure that it would be physically possible to come up with a worse public statement

00:04if you tried.

00:05Here's what Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, said on the All In podcast.

00:09Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month.

00:15My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain.

00:20She just wouldn't.

00:21She thinks something got messed up and she'll get it next month.

00:25A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling, and complaining.

00:33That seniors shouldn't call and complain if they stop getting their Social Security checks

00:37because it's the, quote, fraudsters who always make the loudest noise, screaming, and complaining.

00:41In other words, if you don't get your Social Security check because the Trump administration

00:45has made the conscious decision to gut the Social Security administration, then you better

00:50just shut your mouth because if you raise a stink about it, then clearly you're committing

00:54fraud.

00:55Let me ask everyone in my audience right now who receives Social Security benefits.

00:59If you stopped receiving your checks, what would you say if I told you that any complaints

01:03mean that you're a fraudster?

01:05Elizabeth Warren made that exact point as well, posting, Donald Trump's billionaire

01:09Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans.

01:11One, please buy Tesla stocks to help poor Elon Musk.

01:15Two, shut up and don't complain when you don't get your Social Security check.

01:19And to that exact point, it sure is easy for someone like Howard Lutnick to shame Social

01:24Security recipients when that guy is worth north of $2 billion.

01:28Don't you all see what's happening?

01:30Trump has assembled a cabinet with more billionaires than any other administration in the history

01:35of the United States of America, and these people instantly began attacking lifelines

01:40that working class Americans rely on.

01:43It was this administration that passed a budget blueprint that cut $880 billion from Medicaid,

01:48that cut $230 billion from food stamps, and now, which is seeking to cut 7,000 jobs to

01:55stay in compliance with Trump's executive order as far as the Social Security administration

01:59is concerned.

02:00And I want to be clear about what the goal is.

02:02It's not to outright eliminate Social Security, at least not right away.

02:06They're trying to cripple the agency from the inside so that they can do to Social Security

02:10what they do to every other government agency that they want to destroy, which is to ensure

02:15that it can't work, and then use that dysfunction that they created as a pretense to gut the

02:20agency.

02:21They're going to destroy the Social Security administration and then say, look, we told

02:24you that Social Security doesn't work.

02:26What choice do we have but to privatize it, meaning they don't even have to eliminate

02:30the Social Security administration.

02:32All they have to do is hobble it enough to give Republicans an excuse, a pretense to

02:37go all the way later on.

02:39It is a plan as insidious as it is transparent.

02:42And clearly, this plan is not working, considering even Republican voters in these town halls

02:47are showing that the issue is becoming more and more potent.

02:50This is at Chuck Grassley's town hall in that liberal bastion of Iowa.

02:54We're now seeing that we don't want people to call on the phone to change their direct

03:00deposit, go to a local office, try to get an appointment at a local office.

03:06Right now you're waiting a month and we're going to cut more staff?

03:10This is not right, if any, and we do not want to see Social Security privatized.

03:16I know.

03:17And I want to be clear about something here.

03:20The way that you know you can't trust Republicans as far as Social Security is concerned is

03:23because they are already doing the thing that they swore up and down they would never do,

03:28and that is to touch Medicaid.

03:29Again, the budget blueprint they all unanimously voted for prescribed $880 billion in cuts

03:35to the committee that funds that program.

03:37And of course, they're all saying that they didn't outright cut Medicaid, but that's actually

03:41a clever little ploy, because while they didn't cut Medicaid specifically, while they didn't

03:45cut it outright, they did prescribe cuts to the committee that funds Medicaid.

03:50And the only mathematical way to cut $880 billion to the Energy and Commerce Committee

03:55is to cut Medicaid.

03:57See how they're perfectly content to play games thinking that you're too stupid to know

04:00any better?

04:01If they'll do that to Medicaid, which is a crucial lifeline for over 70 million Americans,

04:07do you really think that they hold any earned benefit program sacred?

04:10Clearly not.

04:11And that's a point that AOC drove home in our recent interview.

04:15What Republicans say is, oh, these big budget cuts don't actually say the word Medicaid

04:20in it, so they aren't Medicaid cuts.

04:23But if I tell you 10 minus, what's 10 minus 4, and you say 6, I can just tell you I didn't

04:30say 6.

04:31Right.

04:32But they put the 10 minus 4 into the bill.

04:35By virtue of ascribing $880 billion in cuts to Energy and Commerce, and the only mathematical

04:40way for them to cut $880 billion is to focus on Medicaid.

04:43That's right.

04:44They're saying cut $880 billion from Energy and Commerce Committee.

04:46I sit on that committee.

04:49And Energy and Commerce, almost the entire budget that Energy and Commerce really explores

04:54is Medicaid and Medicare.

04:56There is no way that they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts

05:03to Medicaid.

05:04The sad reality is that to the GOP and to Trump's billionaire cabinet, this is all a

05:08game.

05:09These lifelines that Americans rely on, whether it's Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security,

05:13education funding, veterans programs, cancer research funding, and on and on, are dispensable

05:19to these billionaires because they don't need them.

05:21They don't rely on Social Security checks every month.

05:24They don't rely on Medicaid every month.

05:26In fact, the most insidious part is that they know full well that the people that they're

05:30targeting are the folks with the least amount of political power.

05:33Take Medicaid, for example.

05:34The folks on Medicaid are low income and children.

05:37Those are people who don't have a lot of political power.

05:39In other words, they are the easiest target.

05:42Republicans know that they want to cut health care, but they want to do so with minimal

05:45political consequences.

05:46And so in the same way that they target gay people and trans people and minorities and

05:51any other marginalized community, here they've decided that their easiest target is Medicaid

05:56recipients.

05:57And that's a point that I made during an interview on Zoteo.

05:59And I think what's even more depraved about this is they went after Medicaid but not Medicare.

06:05And that's because they made a political calculation that because the folks who are recipients

06:10of Medicare, those are seniors, are a more powerful voting block, that they wouldn't

06:15touch that.

06:16But that because Medicaid is composed of low income folks and children, that these are

06:22people who don't have political power.

06:25So their goal was to strip away health care from Americans, but they only wanted to do

06:29it when they can suffer the least amount of political consequence for that.

06:33And I think that that's the most depraved part because they pick and they decided to

06:40cherry pick where it would hurt them the least while they were purposefully searching out

06:44for the people who would have the least political power while they were looking to take their

06:47health care away in this country.

06:49The truth is that these people are already previewing what their priorities are.

06:53At best, they just have a fundamental disdain for working class Americans.

06:57But at worst, they're acting in a way that suggests that they aren't even vying for your

07:00votes at any point in the future.

07:02I mean, think about it.

07:03Touching earned benefits like Social Security is the third rail of American politics.

07:07You don't do it unless you want to get decimated at the ballot box in the upcoming election.

07:11The fact that Republicans are barreling ahead with a sense of full impunity right now suggests

07:16that perhaps they're not worried at all about the prospect of ever facing voters again.

07:20Now, I don't want to sound alarmist, but I really don't want to sound naive.

07:24We are in a constitutional crisis right now, and we ignore the risks that are staring us

07:28in the face at our own peril.

07:29I don't say this as a Democrat.

07:31I say this as an American.

07:33I say this as someone who has paid into earned benefit programs my whole life and who fully

07:37expects to take advantage of them when I'm older.

07:39I say this as someone whose parents and grandma get Social Security checks and certainly want

07:43to continue getting them.

07:45I say this as somebody who has enough empathy and compassion that I don't want to see anybody

07:49lose their lifelines, all because some billionaire like Elon Musk or Howard Lutnick or anybody

07:54else in Trump's cabinet has decided that federal money would be better spent on their own businesses.

07:59The fight of our time is not left-wing versus right-wing, it is the haves versus the have-nots.

08:05I will spend every day on this planet fighting, not for the people who already have everything

08:09they could ever need, but expressly for the people who don't.

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