Playing at a conference organized by the Association of Disabled Guardians of the Beneficiaries of the Social Welfare System in Chicago, Biden devoted his speech to defending the system of benefits against cuts made, among others by the Doge team (Elon Musk's Performance Department). He said that due to cuts, pensioners could not reach the offices and may not receive payments on time.
– Serious people are really concerned now. For the first time and only time in history, social security benefits can be disturbed or delayed, “Biden alerted, accusing the current administration, though not mentioning either Donald Trump, nor Elon Musk – for” cruelty “.
– My father always said that when you fall, you must get up on your feet. And many people do it, get up every day. The last thing they need is intentional cruelty – said the president, adding that social security is about more than retirement accounts. “It's about honoring fundamental trust between the state and people,” he noted.
The former president regretted divisions in society
– We can't function like this as a divided nation, divided as we are. I have been in politics for a long time and there have never been such divisions – said Biden. At the same time, he suggested that the fans of the magician movement “have no heart”.
“Yes, it's about 30 percent, but it's 30 percent that doesn't have a heart,” he said.
Speech in Chicago was the first significant speech of the former president from the end of the term. Referring to him before Biden's speech, the spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt mocked that she was shocked, that the former president decided to make such a late performance (17 local time), because usually at this time was to sleep at this time.
– President Trump is absolutely sure that social security benefits will be protected for American citizens and Seniors who pay contributions to this program – she added.
Leaving the office, Biden announced an active post-resident, but so far he refrained from public statements, even despite the daily criticism of his successor. According to CNN, Biden spends most of his time in his family home in Wilmington in Delaware and visits the office in Washington once a week, traveling by train.
