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LordoftheMorons posted...

This clip is exactly the one I was talking about (and indeed, the clip Bragman includes has several cuts). In context he was not arguing for cutting social security.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/articles-amp/888689/joe-bidens-history-austerity

In a 2007 interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press he said he would consider raising the Social Security retirement age (effectively a large benefit cut, as it would push back the age at which seniors can begin collecting benefits) and cutting cost-of-living increases. "Absolutely, you have to," he said. Sure enough, his campaign released a plan which included "options such as upping the retirement age[.]" He endorsed the idea again during a primary debate (to be fair, he also endorsed removing the payroll tax cap to add revenue).
And while Biden was vice president the Obama administration attempted to get a "grand bargain" with Republicans that would have traded massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare in return for some modest tax hikes on the rich, with the overall goal of cutting the deficit just as Biden had been trying to do for his whole Senate career. (It only fell through because far-right Republicans refused to accept any compromise.)

Politifact is stretching the definition of false to defend Biden, and its totally irresponsible.

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