U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One upon arrival in Manchester, New Hampshire, March 11, 2024.
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President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Monday released a new digital ad targeting President Donald Trump over comments the former president made on CNBC about cuts to government programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The Biden campaign introduced the new policy to CNBC for the first time. 20 second ad He emphasized the “squawk box” statements made by Trump, who is expected to face Biden as the Republican presidential nominee in the November election.
The ad will run on Biden’s social media accounts “X,” Facebook, Instagram and Threads, the campaign said.
In an interview Monday, CNBC host Joe Kernen asked President Trump whether his “view of how we treat rights like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.” has changed.
Mr. Kernen’s question was based on concerns that if these programs are not cut, they will continue to fuel the growth of the U.S. national debt.
“There’s a lot that can be done in terms of curtailing rights and in terms of rights theft and mismanagement,” Trump responded.
The Biden campaign highlighted its response, ending with footage of the president’s State of the Union address on Thursday, saying, “If anyone here wants to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age, I’ll stop them. ” he said.
The ad is part of a series of responses by Biden and his campaign to Trump’s interview, after which they proposed cuts to programs that benefit more than 150 million Americans, many of them older voters. He seized the opportunity to attack the Republican Party.
The Biden campaign first tweeted footage of President Trump’s interview and Biden’s official X account, then responded with a report saying it was “not monitoring” the incident.
“Donald Trump said this morning that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are back on the table,” Biden said at a campaign event in New Hampshire late Monday.
“The bottom line is he’s still doing it,” Biden said. “We will never allow that to happen. We will not cut Social Security. We will not cut Medicare.”
White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates issued a separate statement emphasizing the president’s commitment to protecting the program.
Meanwhile, Trump’s team spent Monday explaining Trump’s comments about “squawk boxes.”
“If Loser doesn’t cut his answers short, we’ll know President Trump is talking about reducing waste,” the Trump campaign tweeted in response to a Biden campaign post featuring a video of the former president. Stated.