2024 State of the Union address: on Social Security

Joe Biden: If Congress tries to raise retirement age, I will stop you

The working people who built this country pay more into Social Security than millionaires and billionaires do. It's not fair. We have two ways to go. Republicans can cut Social Security and give more tax breaks to the wealthy. I will… [interrupted by Republicans booing]. That's the proposal. Oh, no. You guys don't want another $2 trillion tax cut? I kind of thought that's what your plan was. Well, that's good to hear you're not going to cut another $2 trillion for the super wealthy. That's good to hear. I'll protect and strengthen Social Security and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Donald Trump: Cut waste and fraud, but don't cut benefits

There's some room for disagreement about what Trump may have meant. But Trump has consistently said at other times--not only in this campaign but also as president--that he would not make any cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Here is what Trump said in an interview with CNBC: "There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the tremendous bad management of entitlements."

Biden posted a clip of the interview, ending with Trump saying, "There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting." Biden commented, "Not on my watch."

The Trump campaign responded, "If you losers didn't cut his answer short, you would know President Trump was talking about cutting waste."