#shorts On 1/20/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Back on what you said in your answer to Josh about the debt ceiling and the question of entitlements. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in the fall that what the President was arguing in the lead-up to the midterms was that Republicans would cut Social Security, cut Medicare, but the President was not offering his own specific plan for how to ensure the stability of those programs. There were a few sentences on the campaign website three years ago. Does the President have a plan to ensure that Social Security and Medicare will remain solvent in the future? This is now the halfway point of his administration.”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: The President’s plan is that he’s going to protect Social Security, he is going to protect Medicare. And what he is saying very, very clearly here — and we have said this — you heard us — as you mentioned, you heard us say it during the fall — is that, you know, we’re going to continue to call out Republicans who are threatening — they are threatening to force cuts on Social Security … because they want to play this political gamesmanship. And that is something that we’re going to call out. When it — what — as it relates to the debt ceiling, this is something that should be done in a bipartisan way. That’s what the President believes. That’s what he has been saying very, very clearly. We should not put …

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/XK4jsOCxSOk
Q: Biden’s specific plan? Medicare in 3 years & Social Security in 12 years? A: call out Republicans