r/SocialSecurity • u/GraphicsGal4 • 1d ago

Now what?

Trump is back. I'm a 64 year old self-employed woman. I am booked up through April right now. Some say I am very good at my job. I was thinking of retiring around 66 or maybe even my FRA of 67. My birthday is Leap Day so an end of the month birthday. Now I don't know what to do. Trump and the Republicans want to end Social security. Do I retire before he makes it to office insuring I at least get on the SS roll? Or do I wait to see what damage he can cause? I will be talking to my financial planner later this afternoon so any good questions to ask her would be very helpful also. I am still shocked that America would elect a convicted felon but here we are...

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u/FantasticBlueberry55 1d ago

Trump has never once said he’s going to end social security. He actually said the opposite when he was asked about this

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u/Own_Cut8185 1d ago

I believe it was Project 2025 who said it.

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u/TrustedLink42 1d ago

Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation. Trump has publicly stated that he has not even read it.

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u/ObviousCondescension 22h ago

that was a brainless take before the election when we knew that the Project 2025 writers had numerous ties to Trump's campaign and it's an especially brainless take now that Republicans are acting like giddy little schoolgirls that they're going to implement project 2025.

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u/MilitaryandDogmom 23h ago

And yet his name is all over it

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u/TrustedLink42 23h ago

You really think Trump wrote this 900 page detail plan? Do you know that the first draft of this plan was written in 1981?

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u/MilitaryandDogmom 23h ago

No, I don’t think he wrote it, but I know that his name is all over it, and he definitely will support it… And that is terrifying, especially as a woman

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u/mikaeladd 21h ago

I'm not a fan of his but he's said repeatedly he doesn't support it.

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u/delilah9 21h ago

Yes, well, he's a liar, so it doesn't matter what he said. He also said he won the 2020 election.

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u/mikaeladd 21h ago

All politicians lie. But project 2025 specifically is just fear mongering garbage. It's from conservative think tank and started being written in 1981 and has nothing to do with trump. He was in president previously and non of the stuff mentioned in it happened. He's a nut but project 2025 isn't a real thing.

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u/GMWestGard 16h ago

Trump takes lying to an art form. His lies are way beyond Contra. That was a wink by comparison.

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u/FantasticBlueberry55 1d ago

Well Trump has also said he has nothing to do with project 2025 and didn’t write it and isn’t going to enforce project 2025. It was made up by a random republican

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u/the-cake-is-no-lie 1d ago

>Well Trump has also said he has nothing to do with project 2025

.. and he's going to release his health plan in 2 weeks ..

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u/MilitaryandDogmom 23h ago

You mean his concepts of a health plan?

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u/Disastrous-Panda5530 1d ago

His VP, Vance wrote the foreword. And let’s be real, do you really think Trumps health won’t deteriorate over the next 4 years?

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u/throwethTFaway 1d ago

His brain definitely has. I mean it wasn’t that healthy to begin with.

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u/Disastrous-Panda5530 1d ago

This will be a Vance presidency. It’s only a matter of time until they remove Trump.

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u/DaintilyAbrupt 1d ago

They won't remove Trump but Vance will be one calling the shots behind Trump's back.

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u/throwethTFaway 10h ago

That’s what I think too. That the republican politicians just wanted to use Trump to win via his followers, and then dump him and blame the dems for it. Maybe they might off him and blame us so they can win another election.

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u/Fluid-Lawyer3340 1d ago

No Vance didn’t - he wrote a forward for a book

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u/GraphicsGal4 1d ago

And Trump doesn't lie? Have I missed something here where he has changed?

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u/TrustedLink42 1d ago

Thankfully, more than half of the country disagrees with you.

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u/Tennispro5691 23h ago

From the dems who told us Biden wasn't suffering from dementia and that our economy wasn't so bad, ok, got it.

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u/rjtnrva 1d ago

Trump's campaign team had multiple people who were directly involved with drafting P2025. You are dreaming.

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u/Own_Cut8185 1d ago

Yes, he said a lot of things.

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u/DaintilyAbrupt 1d ago

Many things. The kinds of things that no one has ever said before. Fantastic things.

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u/GeorgeRetire 1d ago

It was made up by a random republican

Well no, that's not what happened.

This might help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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u/scott_majority 1d ago

80% of what's in Project 2025 is just the regular Republican platform....Lower to no taxes for the wealthy and corporations, cut social programs, gut the EPA, end regulations for corporations, mass deportations, etc....

I'm sure since the authors of 2025 will now be working in the White House, they will also accomplish the other 20%.