TEHRAN, Jul 17 - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Tuesday that a second term for President Donald Trump would endanger Social Security due to rising deficits.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “To have four more years of this administration means to really put Social Security in jeopardy,” she said at a forum in Davenport, Iowa, hosted by AARP and the Des Moines Register.
Harris said the widening deficit, which the White House projected this week will reach $1 trillion this year, was the result of Trump’s tax bill, which “benefits the top 1% and the biggest corporations.” Funds to make up the shortfall are “going to have to come from somewhere,” she added.
Social Security is projected to be fully funded until 2034, according to its trustees, but then may be in trouble because the large Baby Boom generation, which began retiring about 10 years ago, has strained the Social Security trust fund.
Harris also defended her co-sponsorship of legislation to expand Social Security and lift the payroll tax cap to add revenues to the program, which some Democrats support but is opposed by Trump and Republicans.
A new poll of New Hampshire voters shows Joe Biden leading the Democratic field with 24% of likely voters.
The poll by CNN and the University of New Hampshire showed Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders with 19% each. But the trend line may be notable: she’s up by 14 points since April and he’s down by 11 points since then.
State polls are tricky things months from a primary. Both the CNN-UNH poll and a Saint Anselm College poll released Monday had margins of error of more than 5 percentage points in the small state. The Monday poll showed a much tighter race with Biden, Kamala Harris and Warren all within the margin of error for first place.
The new poll shows Pete Buttigieg in third place with 10% and Harris with 9%. Nobody else tops 2%..
Joe Biden called for the strengthening of antitrust enforcement to protect farmers and ranchers as part of a broader plan targeting voters in rural areas, which have largely become Republican strongholds.
Biden, who is leading in most polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, released a “plan for rural America” as he campaigned in Iowa on Tuesday.
Source: Bloomberg
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