Trump promised he won't cut Social Security. Should you trust him?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : So should you trust Trump when he says the benefits of those currently receiving Social Security are safe?
60% : That's a lot of ballots -- which Trump clearly understands.
58% : Social Security is one of the most popular programs the government runs, with 87% of Americans -- regardless of party -- agreeing that protecting it should be a priority.
57% : For about 50% of Americans over age 65, Social Security accounts for about 50% of their income.
55% : He points out that the majority of government spending goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense.
52% : But there's also this: Social Security is living on borrowed time.
51% : Republicans have long attempted to dismantle or curtail Social Security, dating to its inception in 1935.
51% : So what exactly might we get under Trump 2.0 when it comes to the country's most popular social safety net?
51% : Doing nothing is a deliberate strategy "to shrink Social Security by default, leaving millions of Americans with reduced benefits," Ghilarducci said in an email.
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50% : Today, we're looking ahead to what he might do with old people, specifically old people unlike himself who need Social Security to survive.
50% : Over the weekend, the president-elect promised on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "we're not touching Social Security -- other than we might make it more efficient."
48% : But, to be fair, the last time Social Security was "transformed" was under Ronald Reagan.
47% : Despite that chilling reality, Trump's only detailed plan on Social Security so far is one that would put it deeper in the hole -- ending taxes on benefits and tips.
46% : Daniel Hamermesh, a professor emeritus of economics at University of Texas at Austin, points out that people talk cavalierly about Social Security not being around forever, but secretly have no other survival plan for their old age.
44% : And then there's the DOGE dudes, Musk and Ramaswamy, who swear they are going to cut $2 trillion out of government spending, which would be difficult to do without touching Social Security.
41% : Trump recently nominated Frank Bisignano, a financial services executive who is reportedly paid more than $100 million a year in the private sector, to run the Social Security Administration.
40% : So as much as Social Security is a combo forced savings/insurance policy that some on the right grouse about, it also holds a deep place in our psyche as the safety net that will catch us from falling into poverty in our senior years -- even those of us who claim to hate government handouts.
39% : Taxing those additional wages would go a long way toward stabilizing Social Security, Auerbach said -- but Republicans hate taxing the rich as much as Democrats hate raising the retirement age.
37% : A lot of people say they don't expect Social Security, "but deep down, they're relying on it," he told me.Which makes it politically insane to suggest doing away with it, as some on the right have done.
34% : "Trump is clever enough not to promote unpopular things like raising the retirement age (even though the Republican Study committee did)
34% : But doing nothing with Social Security in the next four years may be the worst outcome of all -- leaving dreaming-of-retirement workers in their 40s, 50s (and younger) paying into a system that can't pay them back.
25% : "She said she thinks Trump is likely to do nothing but simply sit back and watch the ship sink.

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