Trump and I, we`ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it end this way. Oh, my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he`s been a consequential president. But today, the first thing you`ll see. All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.

I stand ready to make those hard decisions.

I think it is hard to make the argument that we do not need to keep this whole and healthy.

I would invite President Biden to be part of it.

If you asked me to take a little less to save Social Security for people who need it more than I do, count me in.

Count me in for raising the cap on income subject to Social Security taxation, within reason.

So Senator Schumer, in case you are watching, I challenge you to bring Senator Sanders' bill to the floor.

Hopefully they will get better. But you have an opportunity, President Biden, to do something along the lines of Reagan.

So I would ask President Biden to form some kind of mechanism to get us all in a room.

I would suggest: The Reagan-O'Neill model.

I think it needs to be talked about, and we are going to talk about it in terms on our side that is a little more holistic than just tax the rich.

Senator Graham just laid out that the problem with Social Security is that if nothing happens, benefits are going to go down 23 percent.

I really do believe it is possible if there is political will.

Count me in for more revenue. We are going to need more revenue.

When we are borrowing money from our kids and our grandkids, which is what we are doing now to run this biggest business in the world, you are not going to be in a position to fix maybe one of the most important things it does.

If you think taxing the wealthy is going to save Social Security, you are wrong.

That lack of political will, of trading off spending for this versus that, which you have got to do everywhere else in our society--it is laughed at whenever you use the metaphor of households.

Senator Lindsey Graham, who supported the privatization effort too, has proposed a bill cutting Social Security benefits by 21 percent.

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