President Trump has linked two budget items, and that may be a good idea. Trump wants to extend his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and provide some other tax breaks, and we need to fix Social Security. The link between tax cuts and Social Security exists because one of Trump’s new tax-cutting proposals would exempt Social Security benefits from taxation under the federal income tax.

Taken in context with all Trump’s proposed tax and immigration policies, eliminating these 8.3 million workers from the country could bump up the depletion date of the Social Security trust funds by two years to 2031, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says.