“They shoot and aim later,” said Biden. “They want to destroy him so that they can rob it. Why do they want to rob it? To give tax reductions to billionaires and large corporations.”
The appearance was not a coincidence that meant the first big event of Biden since leaving the office, focused on social insurance. Democrats are increasingly specializing in the turbulent leadership of President Donald Trump on the popular government agency, which provides the advantages of over 70 million Americans – or 20 percent of the American population.
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Both sides expect social insurance to appear as a key issue in future intraceards.
Speaking in front of the crowd about 200 people, Biden largely held his prepared comments, but sometimes he wandered when he talked about growing up with people from the employees’ class.
He referred to the Republican president only “this guy”. However, Trump still blames Biden for a lot of problems of the nation and infrequently attacks his predecessor by name.
Conservatives immediately took over the reference of Biden to the country’s political divisions as an attack on Trump’s supporters.
“We can’t continue to continue as a divided nation, just like us,” said Biden. “As I said, I did it for a long time. It has never been so divided. It is about 30 percent, but it is 30 percent that has no heart.”
Biden spokesman didn’t immediately answer at the request for a proof to which Biden referred.
Earlier on that day, the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt shot the former president’s age and efficiency when he was asked about his appearance.
“I am shocked that he speaks at night,” Leavitt said during the every day press briefing of the White House. “I thought that he was before bedtime than his speech.”
She said that Trump, who’s 78 years old, would sign this afternoon by the presidential Memorandum “aimed at stopping illegal aliens and other non -qualified people, from obtaining” social security advantages. Leavitt said that the Memorandum will expand the program of prosecutor for fraud related to fraud in social insurance administration on at the very least 50 American lawyers and establish programs of the prosecutor’s office regarding Medicare and Medicaid fraud at 15 American prosecutors’ offices.
The social security administration has pushed the attention of Biden using the official X account. “Former president Joe Biden lies to Americans,” the agency wrote.
Among the conference participants was a lawyer from Michigan Jason Turkish, who manages one of the largest law firms in the country. He said that Trump’s presidency caused anxiety of many of his 32,000 clients throughout the country who’re nervous about reduced advantages and uncertainty about agency changes.
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“We go from republican to democrat, democrat to Republicans and there was always a belief that social insurance is simply something that we do not touch,” he said.
Despite this, he said that there have been signs, that social security administration officials were open to changes. He cited how the agency partly withdrew from the plans requirements from the beneficiaries to go to the field office to confirm their identity. Turkish was also optimistic about the efforts of the agency’s modernization.
Return to the stage for Biden
Biden will not be expected a frequent public performance when he goes to his profession for the president. He still maintains the office in Washington, but he returned to Delaware as his fixed home base. Trump canceled his safety permits.
“This is the whole moment on board, which is why President Biden’s voice is so important at the moment,” said the leader of the democratic house Hakeem Jeffries in an interview with reporters before Biden.
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While Biden can have the opportunity to help his event in collecting funds and messages, he left the White House with poor approval.
Biden also stands in the face of blaming some progressors who claim that he shouldn’t have been in search of the second term. Biden ended his re -election offer after the catastrophic result of the debate against Trump and was the place of the then president of Kamali Harris, who lost to Trump in autumn.
According to the Gallup survey conducted at the inauguration of Trump, only 39 percent of Americans had a positive opinion on Biden in January.
The views of the democratic former president were essentially unchanged from the Gallup survey soon conducted in the November election. Basically, they consistently follow low grades, which Biden experienced in the second half of his presidential term.
Indeed, while some democratic leaders welcomed Biden’s return this week, others weren’t satisfied with him.
“The best role that Biden could play would be outside the public scene,” said Norman Solomon, a progressive activist. “It may sound harshly, but to be honest, his egocentric mentality has already caused so much damage to the Democratic Party and the country that he is certainly to owe humble humility.”
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