Speaking at a conference organised by the association of disabled carers beneficiaries of the Chicago welfare system, Biden devoted his speech to defending the benefit strategy against cuts made, among others, by the DOGE squad (State Performance Department) Elona Muska. He said that due to cuts, pensioners can't scope the offices and may not get paid on time.
— Serious people are truly worried right now. For the first and only time in history, benefits from Social safety may be disrupted or delayed,” he alarmed Biden, accusing the current administration — although not mentioning Donald Trump or Elon Musk by name — of “violence”.
— My father always said erstwhile you fall, you gotta get on your feet. And quite a few people do that, they get up all day. The last thing they request is deliberate cruelty,” said the president, adding that social safety is more than just retirement accounts. “It is about honoring fundamental trust between the state and people,” he noted.
Former president Regretted Disparity in Society
— We cannot proceed to function as a divided nation as divided as we are. I have been in politics for a long time, and there have never been specified divisions,” said Biden. At the same time, he suggested that MEGA movement sympathizers "have no heart".
“It is about 30 percent, but it is 30 percent, which has no heart,” he said.
Speech in Chicago was the first crucial speech by the erstwhile president since the end of his word of office. Referring to him even before Biden spoke, White home spokeswoman Karolina Leavitt taunted that she was shocked that the erstwhile president had decided to make specified a late performance (17 local time), due to the fact that usually at this time she went to sleep.
“President Trump is absolutely certain that social safety benefits will be protected for law-abiding and tax-paying American citizens and seniors who contribute to the scheme,” she added.
Leaving office, Biden announced an active post-presidentship, but has so far refrained from public statements, even despite regular criticism from his successor. According to CNN, Biden spends most of his time at his family's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and visits his Washington office erstwhile a week by train.
