Club for Growth releases new anti-Trump ad

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The Club for Growth, a prominent conservative advocacy group, released a new ad Thursday attacking former President Trump over his plan for Social Security.

“Trump’s plan for Social Security has no practice swing,” the ad said, along with footage of Trump golfing. “His plan, like Joe Biden’s, is club seniors with automatic benefit cuts, 23 percent over 10 years or less, putting your retirement in a tough spot.”

“With Donald Trump, it’s par for the course,” the ad continues. “Another plan that cheats people out of their earnings, people who worked for it but can’t get it, if Trump’s plan sinks 23 percent of their savings. Tell Donald Trump, stop cheating the elderly.”

The golf-themed ad, released ahead of a LIV Golf tournament at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, DC, this weekend, takes aim at the former president’s demand that “under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut one cent from Medicare or Social Security.”

Biden also promised to “protect Social Security and Medicare without any change.”

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The Social Security trust fund is set to run out in 2033, when recipients will see their benefits cut by about 23 percent, according to a recent estimate by the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees.

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This has been cited by conservative groups in calls to reform benefit programs before they go bankrupt.

“The Biden-Trump position may sound like a promise to protect Social Security, but it’s not,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in an April op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. “The ‘no change’ law calls for substantial benefit cuts over 10 years.”

Biden has proposed raising taxes on the wealthy to help bolster benefit programs, a position popular on the left of his party but widely rejected by Republicans.

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