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On the recordMarch 4, 2025
No, we’re not going to cut Social Security. Quite the contrary. We must expand Social Security benefits and extend its solvency for the next 75 years by scrapping the cap that allows a billionaire to pay the same amount into Social Security as a truck driver.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders advocates for expanding Social Security benefits rather than cutting them.

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