Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources were fetched and are REAL, live, and quoted accurately. PolitiFact's MAGA-Meter entry on the adjacent Trump pledge ("I will not lay a finger on Medicare or Social Security") is rated 'In the Works,' with its most recent update (Louis Jacobson, Feb 19, 2026) headlined 'No direct benefit cuts to Social Security and Medicare, but some changes could have impacts.' FactCheck.org (Oct 2025) states verbatim: 'As president, Trump has not proposed cutting Social Security or Medicare benefits.' The White House statement is live and says verbatim: 'The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.' So the core of the promise has held — no benefit cuts have been enacted, and the administration has committed in writing not to cut them. But 'protect' was not fully delivered: FactCheck.org documents that the 2025 reconciliation law narrows Medicare eligibility to U.S. citizens, green-card holders and legal immigrants from a few specific locations (stripping coverage from a class of lawfully present noncitizens), delays the Biden-era Medicare Savings Programs enrollment simplification until 2034 (reducing low-income beneficiaries' access to cost-sharing help), and creates a deficit impact that could trigger $536 billion in mandatory Medicare sequestration over nine years absent congressional action. TWO claims in the prior rationale could NOT be substantiated from the cited sources and have been dropped rather than repeated as fact: (a) a delay to orphan-drug price negotiation, and (b) DOGE-driven SSA staffing/office/service degradation — the FactCheck.org piece contains no SSA administration content, and no independent source for either was verifiable within this run's search budget. The prior rationale's '$500 billion' sequestration figure is corrected to the sourced $536 billion over nine years. Evenhandedness check: a politician of either party who preserved core benefits, publicly committed to no cuts, but signed a law that narrowed program eligibility for a subset and pushed a low-income assistance improvement out a decade would draw the same label. FULL is unavailable because enacted eligibility narrowing is a real reduction in protection for some beneficiaries; CHAMPIONED is unavailable because declining to cut is a default rather than a led, affirmative protective effort (no enacted solvency fix; the trust funds remain roughly eight years from insolvency); ATTEMPTED understates a promise whose core did land; IGNORED/MISALIGNED/HOSTILE are contradicted by the absence of benefit cuts. PARTIAL stands. Confidence held at 0.7 because PolitiFact still classifies the pledge 'In the Works' — the term is mid-course and the sequestration trigger is contingent.