“The appointments that he’s made are troublesome and very, very scary,” Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, said. “He made a pledge and sort of delineated himself from the rest of the Republican field by saying these things. And last March, Mr. Trump said during a debate among Republican presidential candidates that he planned to make no changes. “I will do everything within my power not to touch Social Security, to leave it the way it is,” Mr. Trump said. The entire Medicare system is at risk.”And those cuts would not just affect poor minority voters, who tend to support Democratic candidates.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2017 09:56 UTC