Biden attacks Trump: ‘He is destroying welfare, a calamity for millions’

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Three months after leaving the White House, the former president breaks his silence. Denounces cuts to Social Security and accuses the Trump administration of deliberate cruelty

Almost three months after the end of his term, Joe Biden returns to speak publicly and does so with a direct and very harsh attack on Donald Trump. The speech took place in Chicago, during a conference on the rights of the disabled. The former president denounced the current administration’s economic policy, accusing it of causing ‘staggering damage and devastation’ in less than 100 days.

Biden pointed his finger at the current government’s decisions on the US pension system, stating that ‘they are using the hatchet against the Social Security administration’, laying off 7,000 employees, including executives with years of experience. ‘People have received their paychecks during wars, recessions, pandemics. Now for the first time they are really worried that it will be discontinued,’ he said. ‘It would be a calamity for millions of families.’

The former president also threw an indirect jibe at Elon Musk, described by Biden as ‘the man Trump entrusted with the hatchet’, accusing him of following the motto of big tech companies: ‘Move fast and break things’. For Biden, the effect of this policy is ‘unnecessary suffering and sleepless nights for millions of Americans’.

According to the former Democratic president, indiscriminate cuts are behind the technical problems that are plaguing the Social Security website, the difficulties in accessing the hotline, and the risks to citizens’ sensitive data. This is why the Democrats are aiming to make the welfare issue one of the pillars of the campaign for the upcoming midterm elections.

Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s spokeswoman, immediately retorted, defending the new course by stating that the president only intends to ‘eliminate fraud and abuse’ and guarantee benefits ‘to those who pay taxes and respect the law’. She then took the opportunity to ironise Biden: ‘I’m amazed he speaks so late at night, I thought he went to bed much earlier’.

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