“FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE,” the platform reads. “It’s not a genuine policy prescription to save Social Security,” Jason Fichtner, chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center and former acting deputy commissioner of Social Security, said of the party platform. The combined Social Security trust funds – which help support monthly payments to the elderly, survivors and people with disabilities – are expected to be exhausted in 2035, according to its trustees’ annual report. Both candidates have painted themselves into a corner by saying they won’t cut benefits, said Biggs. “Never before have the two parties’ presidential candidates been closer in their positions on Social Security,” he said.

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Persons: Donald Trump, “, Trump, “ It’s, ” Jason Fichtner, Andrew Biggs, “ Donald Trump’s, ”, Biggs, Joe Biden Organizations: CNN, Security, Republican National Committee, White House, Republicans, Social, Center, Social Security, American Enterprise Institute, Social Security Administration Locations: November’s