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Obama: No Guarantee of Social Security Checks if Talks Fail
Speaking to CBS News, President Obama said he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will be mailed out if an agreement fails.
Scott Pelley: "Can you tell the folks at home that, no matter what happens, the Social Security checks are going to go out on August the 3rd? There are about $20 billion worth of Social Security checks that have to go out the day after the government is supposedly going to go into default?"
President Obama: "Well, this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans’ checks, these are folks on disability, and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out each month."
Pelley: "Can you guarantee, as president, those checks will go out on August the 3rd?"
Obama: "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue, because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it."
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