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Bessent Clarifies Social Security 'Privatization' Comments

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  • #United States of America
Bessent Clarifies Social Security 'Privatization' Comments
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1 day ago
Above: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Stockholm on July 29, 2025. Image copyright: Magnus Lejhall/AFP/Getty Images
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The Spin

Democratic narrative

Bessent inadvertently revealed the administration's true agenda to dismantle Social Security through privatization schemes. Despite campaign promises to protect benefits, Trump officials are already laying the groundwork to shift retirement security from guaranteed government payments to risky market investments.

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Republican narrative

Democrats are using one little verbal slip-up to try to distract from the news that Trump's newborn accounts are going to make the next generation of Americans into millionaires. The data shows that these accounts will be a great supplement to Social Security, which was what Bessent meant to say.

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