The Trump administration has taken a “hatchet” to Social Security and the program is teetering toward the possibility of its first missed check in 90 years, former President Joe Biden said in his first public speech since leaving the White House.

Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration's welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had "taken a hatchet" to Social Security,

In his first speech since leaving office, former President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration's staffing cuts and other changes at the Social Security Administration, but he made several misleading claims in the process.

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Abrupt changes in staffing and some procedures at the Social Security Administration, coupled with false and misleading claims about widespread fraud, have prompted heated criticism from Democrats, with some statements leaving the wrong impression that benefits are being cut.