{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-trump-should-pledge-to-veto-social-security-medicare-medicaid-cuts", "Sanders: Trump Should Pledge to Veto Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Cuts", "2016-12-11", "2016", "2016-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Sanders: Trump Should Pledge to Veto Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Cuts\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSunday, December 11, 2016\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tBURLINGTON, Vt., Dec. 11 \u2013 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) challenged President-elect Donald Trump\u00a0Sunday\u00a0to keep the campaign promises he made not to cut\u00a0Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Trump should pledge to veto legislation cutting those programs that Republicans in Congress plan to pass in the new session of Congress, Sanders\u00a0said\u00a0on the CBS News program Face the Nation.\r\n\u201cI challenge Mr. Trump today: tell\u00a0the American people you are going to\u00a0keep your campaign promises.\u00a0Tell the Republicans to back\u00a0off. No cuts for Social\u00a0Security, Medicare, Medicaid and\u00a0go forward with your campaign\u00a0promise to lower the cost of\u00a0prescription drugs,\u201d Sanders said.\u00a0\r\nDuring the campaign, Trump said, \u201cI am not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican. And I\u2019m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid. Every other Republican is going to cut\u00a0[them].\u201d\u00a0\u00a0On May 7, 2015, Trump sent out a tweet stating:\u00a0\"I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.\" On another occasion speaking at the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit, Trump scolded Republicans for trying to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.\u00a0\r\nBut as president-elect, Trump has picked Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who advocated steep cuts in Medicare and Social Security, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.\r\n\u201cAll that Mr. Trump has got to do today is tell his Republican colleagues in the House and the Senate, \u2018Back off. It ain't going to go anywhere. I will veto any legislation that will cut Social Security because I promised the American people that I would not do that.\u2019\u201d\r\nSanders supports expanding Social Security benefits by lifting the cap on\u00a0all income above\u00a0$250,000 a year. \u201cIf we do that we can extend Social Security for 50 years. The top 1.5 percent of people in this country will pay more in taxes. That's the right thing to do.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-trump-should-pledge-to-veto-social-security-medicare-medicaid-cuts"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4772461727261543, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}