Trump Using COVID-19 As A Cover To Gut Social Security And Medicare, Critics Charge

Critics erupted Saturday after President Donald Trump signed four executive actions that included deferring payroll taxes that provide funding for both Social Security and Medicare.

While Trump characterized the move as a financial boost for Americans struggling amid the COVID-19 crisis, critics blasted it as a cynical ploy to do what Trump has long intended to do: Gut the vitally important social service programs just as Americans need them more than ever during the pandemic.

The American people desperately need relief, noted Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.). Instead, the president decided to defund Social Security and Medicare.

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called Trumps action a reckless war on Social Security . Hes laying out his road map to cut the program, he warned in a statement.

House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) called the move a poorly disguised first step in an effort to fully dismantle these vital programs by executive fiat.

Trump also signed an order providing $400 a week in enhanced unemployment benefits down from the $600 weekly benefit that expired last month.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called the orders a stunt.

This is all a stuntcutting unemployment benefits and threatening Social Security and Medicare only deepen the pain people are feeling.

Congress must act in a way that meets the scale of this crisis. Trump and Senate Republicans need to stop the games and come to the table now. https://t.co/Jw60t5gtt9

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This is all a stuntcutting unemployment benefits and threatening Social Security and Medicare only deepen the pain people are feeling.

Congress must act in a way that meets the scale of this crisis. Trump and Senate Republicans need to stop the games and come to the table now. https://t.co/Jw60t5gtt9
Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 8, 2020

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) pointed out that the president just unilaterally cut Social Security and your unemployment benefits. In the middle of a pandemic.

Dont let the occupant of the White House distract you.

He just unilaterally cut Social Security and your unemployment benefits. In the middle of a pandemic.

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Dont let the occupant of the White House distract you.

He just unilaterally cut Social Security and your unemployment benefits. In the middle of a pandemic.
Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) August 8, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned in a statement that the move would endanger Social Security and Medicare .

Trump himself presented the move as an opening gambit in his long game to eliminate the payroll taxes, which provide the funding for the social service programs. He promised to terminate the payroll tax if hes reelected.

If Im victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax, Trump said at a news conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course. In other words, Ill extend beyond the end of the year and terminate the tax .

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) warned on Twitter that such an action would gut the programs if Trump gets a second term.

Trump just promised that if he wins reelection he'll gut Social Security and Medicare.

A vote for @JoeBiden in November means protecting and expanding these benefitsensuring our seniors have the ability to retire with dignity.

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Trump just promised that if he wins reelection he'll gut Social Security and Medicare.

A vote for @JoeBiden in November means protecting and expanding these benefitsensuring our seniors have the ability to retire with dignity.
Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 8, 2020

An organization representing taxpayer interests slammed Trumps executive order as a holiday for the wealthy and a death sentence for Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries.

Trumps payroll tax holiday is a lose-lose strategy, said a statement from Tax March to HuffPost Saturday after the order was signed. It wont deliver any relief to struggling small businesses or laid-off workers, but it will dangerously diminish funding for Social Security and Medicare at a time when millions of people depend on these programs.

Employers typically withhold payroll taxes to send directly to the federal government to fund Social Security and Medicare. Trumps order would defer the workers portion of those taxes 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare for those making less than $100,000 annually from Sept. 1 through the end of the year .

It would do nothing to help unemployed workers and would begin to drain the funding pool supporting the social service programs, already massively struggling as funds dwindle amid record unemployment.

Deferred taxes would presumably have to be repaid at some point, though Trump held out the carrot of canceled taxes but only if hes reelected.

Not only would payroll tax deferments weaken the bedrock retirement and health programs, the money might not even reach the pockets of strapped workers , warned economists at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

Employers are ultimately responsible for passing on an employees share of the tax to the government. Employers could simply withhold the tax and keep the money until the later payment deadline, the group warned.

Its unclear how Trump could legally terminate payroll taxes. Only Congress has the power to change taxes. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a statement Saturday supporting Trumps executive actions .

Not all Republicans expressed support for Trumps move. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said in a statement that the pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop . President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law. Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people acting through their members of Congress.

As a candidate in 2016, Trump declared that it was his absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is. But this January he said that his administration would look at cost savings in entitlement plans after his massive tax cut to corporations in 2017 slashed Treasury income.

This defunds Medicare.
This defunds Social Security.
Tax collection is just deferred.
Youll still owe these taxes next year. https://t.co/sraSTbHOxs

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This defunds Medicare.
This defunds Social Security.
Tax collection is just deferred.
Youll still owe these taxes next year. https://t.co/sraSTbHOxs
The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 9, 2020

The Payroll Tax funds Social Security and Medicare.

Trump is using the pandemic to defund them.

He's not giving you money. He's stealing money from your future.

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The Payroll Tax funds Social Security and Medicare.

Trump is using the pandemic to defund them.

He's not giving you money. He's stealing money from your future.
Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) August 8, 2020

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I mean, elect me and Ill permanently defund Medicare and Social Security is a helluva campaign slogan.

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I mean, elect me and Ill permanently defund Medicare and Social Security is a helluva campaign slogan.
Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) August 8, 2020

When Trump says defer payroll tax he is really saying defund Social Security and Medicare. Remember this when he claims Democrats want to defund the police.

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When Trump says defer payroll tax he is really saying defund Social Security and Medicare. Remember this when he claims Democrats want to defund the police.
George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 8, 2020

Donald Trump once promised he would be the only Republican that doesnt want to cut Social Security

Trump: If Reelected, I will Terminate Social Security.

The Social Security helps many Seniors who have paid into the system for 50-60 years. https://t.co/dHmEC0M43c

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Donald Trump once promised he would be the only Republican that doesnt want to cut Social Security

Trump: If Reelected, I will Terminate Social Security.

The Social Security helps many Seniors who have paid into the system for 50-60 years. https://t.co/dHmEC0M43c
JakeMusc96 (@Musc96) August 8, 2020

Candidate Trump promised to protect Social Security and Medicare.

President Trump just promised to PERMANENTLY DEFUND Social Security and Medicare.

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Candidate Trump promised to protect Social Security and Medicare.

President Trump just promised to PERMANENTLY DEFUND Social Security and Medicare.
SocialSecurityWorks (@SSWorks) August 8, 2020