https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...le-over-who-will-best-protect-social-security
While running for re-election in 1996, then-Congressman Sanders said at a news conference that the Social Security system had "been adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again." The Sanders campaign has assailed Biden for saying Social Security was in need of "adjustments" in a 2018 speech, with Chief Policy Adviser Warren Gunnels on Wednesday quoting an interest group saying the term was a "euphemism" for cuts.
"When politicians want to expand Social Security, which is extremely popular, they say so. They don't use euphemisms like 'adjustments,'" Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, said in the statement that Gunnels quoted on Twitter.
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