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PartialSocial Security, Medicare & Retirement

It's my absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is. Not increase the age and to leave it as is.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 62%

Verification confirms the PARTIAL outcome. All three cited sources are reachable and on-topic for this promise (no age increase; leave Social Security "as is"). The core commitments held: PolitiFact confirms "The rules governing Social Security benefits remain the same as when Trump took office January 2025" and that "Trump hasn't directly cut benefits" — no retirement-age increase and no direct benefit cut. The genuine deviations are also documented: ProPublica confirms (near-verbatim) that SSA drafted a rule that "could result in at least 830,000 mostly older blue-collar workers being denied disability benefits" before the administration "decided not to pursue the disability cuts"; PolitiFact confirms DOGE "sought to cut the Social Security Administration's workforce, offices and services"; and Motley Fool confirms the Big Beautiful Bill indirectly harmed OASI financing (payroll-taxable income reduced; OASI reserve exhaustion moved to Q4 2032). That "kept core, real deviations on the margins" record is a well-calibrated PARTIAL — neither FULL nor MISALIGNED. Two caveats reduce confidence but do not defeat the rating: (1) the PolitiFact and Motley Fool quotes as written in the rating are paraphrases/stitched reconstructions rather than verbatim passages, though every substantive claim is present in the source (only the ProPublica quote is verbatim); (2) PolitiFact's own status is "In the Works," a provisional label, not a final kept/broken verdict. Because the outcome is independently supported and not overstated, and no quote invents facts absent from its source, I uphold.

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