Like Biden, Sanders Once Urged Social Security ‘Adjustments’
- Sanders campaign says Biden has record of advocating cuts
- Sanders said retirement program would need changes in 1996
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders attend the Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta on Nov. 20, 2019.
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Bernie Sanders is locked in an escalating feud with Joe Biden over whether the former vice president has advocated cutting Social Security, a program considered sacrosanct by many Democrats.
But Sanders himself once used language that was very similar to Biden’s to describe the need to bolster the federal retirement program.