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On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
Here is how I see it: Social Security and Medicare are contracts that we make with each other.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren describes Social Security and Medicare as mutual contracts between Americans and the government.

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