Former President Joe Biden Slams President Donald Trump Admin: In Less Than 100 Days They’ve Done ‘So Much Damage And So Much Destruction’

During the 2025 ACRD Conference in Chicago, IL, former President Joe Biden spoke about the first 100 days of the second Trump Administration.

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00:00to take over, by the way. But look what's happened now.

00:09Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made so much, done so much damage and so much

00:18destruction. It's kind of breathtaking it could happen that soon. They've taken a hatchet to the

00:24Social Security Administration, pushing an additional 7,000 employees, 7,000 out the

00:32door in that time, including the most seasoned career officials. Now they're getting ready

00:38to push thousands more out the door. Already we can see the effects. For example, thousands

00:46of people use the Social Security website every single day to check on their benefits and submit

00:50their claims. But now, the Technology Division of the Social Security Administration has been

00:57cut in half. And so the website's crashing. People can't sign on to their accounts. What

01:06do you think it does to that woman living alone, that 74-year check-in, just not able to even

01:14find out whether, she can't even find out what that disability claim is she has. She can't

01:20file a new disability claim. And a lot of these people are being told incorrectly that their

01:26benefits have ended. Folks, imagine the panic that causes. If you're a retiree living alone,

01:37the only Social Security to depend upon. So now people are overwhelming the phone lines. They're

01:46showing up at the local Social Security office, tearful and frantic, and told, do you have an

01:52appointment? In that tone, by the way. I can give you a personal example if I'm not going to, though.

01:59To cap it all off, serious people are now generally concerned for the first time in history, for the first

02:06and only time in history that Social Security benefits may be delayed or interrupted. Folks,

02:13let's put this in perspective. In the 90 years since Franklin Roosevelt created the Social Security

02:21system, people have always gotten their Social Security checks. They've gotten them during wartime,

02:28during recessions, during a pandemic, no matter what they got them. But now, for the first time ever,

02:39that might change. It would be calamity for millions of families, millions of people. The current Secretary of

02:50Commerce doesn't seem to get it. Or based on his comments, he doesn't seem to even care. Many of you saw what he said

02:57the other day. By the way, he's a billionaire. God love him, as my mother would say. Paying 8.5% in taxes.

03:05But anyway. Billionaires, I don't know what he's paying. But when he talked about the possibility

03:12that Social Security checks not going out this month, he shrugged it off. Here's what he said. He said his

03:2294-year-old mother-in-law wouldn't complain, wouldn't bother her. She's probably a lovely

03:29woman. No kidding. Her son-in-law is a billionaire. What about that 94-year-old mother living all

03:39by herself? She doesn't have a billionaire in the family. All the retirees who depend on that monthly

03:47check to feed themselves. All those people with disabilities have no other source. What about

03:57all those people? That's who you fight for. So they should desperately need you.