{"id":38903,"date":"2025-04-16T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/trump-and-musk-taking-hatchet-to-social-security-says-biden-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:07:09","slug":"trump-and-musk-taking-hatchet-to-social-security-says-biden-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/trump-and-musk-taking-hatchet-to-social-security-says-biden-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Musk taking \u2018hatchet\u2019 to social security, says Biden | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president accuses Trump in first speech since leaving office. Plus, deadly Israeli strike hits second Gaza hospital this week<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>In his first speech since leaving the White House, Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/15\/joe-biden-social-security-trump-musk\">\u201ctaking a hatchet\u201d to social security<\/a>, which he called a \u201csacred promise\u201d that 73 million Americans rely on each month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What else did Biden say?<\/strong> \u201cIn the 90 years since Franklin Roosevelt created the social security system, people have always gotten their social security checks. They\u2019ve gotten them during wartime, during recessions, during a pandemic. No matter what, they got them. But now for the first time ever, that might change. It\u2019d be a calamity for millions of families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the <\/strong><strong>humanitarian toll of Sudan\u2019s civil war?<\/strong> The consequences for Sudan\u2019s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of whom went to neighbouring countries. Almost half the population \u2013 24.6 million people \u2013 do not have enough food.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/16\/first-thing-donald-trump-elon-musk-taking-hatchet-to-social-security-says-joe-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president accuses Trump in first speech since leaving office. Plus, deadly Israeli strike hits second Gaza hospital this week Good morning. In his first speech since leaving the White House, Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday of \u201ctaking a hatchet\u201d to social security, which he called a \u201csacred promise\u201d that 73 &#8230; <a title=\"Trump and Musk taking \u2018hatchet\u2019 to social security, says Biden | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/trump-and-musk-taking-hatchet-to-social-security-says-biden-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump and Musk taking \u2018hatchet\u2019 to social security, says Biden | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}