CSPAN2 House Budget Committee 2019 Budget February 15, 2018
Social security was much closer to going bankrupt and then it is today. The reason we have it today is the work the commission did, the surplus that was piled up in the intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and are drying it down pretty rapidly. An opportunity to do that again, if we could reform Something Like that, we prevented this for three consecutive congresses by this president could be the person who saves Social Security, put it on firm footing and it would be done in a bipartisan way. My friend on the other side of the aisle are always concerned t...