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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,244 posts) Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:15 PM Jul 31

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Bessent tries to walk back comments suggesting Social Security could be privatized. [View all]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back his suggestion that the so-called Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a "back door" to start privatizing Social Security.

Bessent made the comments in an interview with Breitbart while he was speaking at length about the importance of financial literacy.

"But in a way, it is a back door for privatizing Social Security," Bessent said.

In a social media post on Wednesday evening, Bessent sought to clarify his remarks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bessent-tries-clarify-comments-suggesting-164713122.html

He wasn't supposed to blab.

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Bessent tries to walk back comments suggesting Social Security could be privatized. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 31 OP

Yeah, he knew EXACTLY who he was talking too. He even turned his head and looked at the camera when he said it n/t Cheezoholic Jul 31 #1

Social Security is NOT a savings program. Xolodno Jul 31 #2

I don't get the obsession with the "break even" stuff Skittles Jul 31 #3

It is a social insurance program. It isn't an investment program, valleyrogue Jul 31 #5

You know that... Xolodno Aug 1 #6

He should have shut up his fat trap. valleyrogue Jul 31 #4

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