NEW: Dr. Oz Wants To Raise the Retirement Age to Fund Trump’s Tax Cuts for Billionaires Arrow

During a Health and Human Services announcement yesterday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, Mehmet Oz, said Americans should "not retire" or "start working a year earlier, right out of high school" to generate $3 trillion to reduce the national debt, nearly the same amount that Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill will add to the deficit through permanent tax cuts for the rich while making the largest cuts to Medicaid EVER.

Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also come after retirement, saying the Trump Accounts are a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security," after promising Social Security "won't be touched."

In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:

"Donald Trump has ignored the concerns of everyday Americans who are just trying to make ends meet, failing to do anything about rising costs while hollowing out the job market. Now he wants Americans to work harder for longer - delaying their hard-earned retirement - all to pay for his tax cuts for billionaires. Democrats are fighting for working families by lowering health care costs, tackling high grocery prices, and creating good-paying jobs for all, while Trump and JD Vance earn their well-deserved slogan of 'Billionaires first, Americans last.'"

This isn't the first time Oz has suggested Americans need to work longer. Just last month, he suggested multiple times that the average American should work "one more year in their lifetime" and that Trump believes there's a "big opportunity" to "get Americans to want to work a little longer."