Pledged to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits and to oppose cuts to those programs as part of debt-ceiling and deficit-reduction negotiations.

Stated position. What this official has said they believe on this issue — a sourced claim, shown distinctly from any assessment of what they did. It is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

Derived from a tracked promise: “Pledged to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits and to oppose cuts to those programs as part of debt-ceiling and deficit-reduction …”

Sources

Office of U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (senate.gov)https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/whitehouse-introduces-resolution-to-defend-social-security-and-medicare ↗
“We must keep faith with the millions of Americans who have paid and earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.”