Reform of Social Security and other government-funded entitlement programs is off the table in the Trump administration, at least for the time being.
In the days leading up to President Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress, Steve Mnuchin, the president's Secretary of Treasury, has been sending strong signals that reforming Social Security, which the Congressional Budget Office says will be insolvent by 2029 and require a nearly 30-percent across the board cut in benefit payments, is not an immediate priority for Trump.
"We are not touching those now," Mnuchin said of Social Security and Medicare, in a weekend interview the Fox Business Channel.
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