In an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News, Rep. Paul Ryan addressed a number of criticisms of his budget proposal. This exchange is on the concern that Ryan failed to address Social Security:

BAIER: Why didn’t you tackle Social Security?
RYAN: We have a trigger in our bill which says that if the Trustees say that Social Security is going to become insolvent, which it is, then the president, the Trustees and Congress must bring Social Security legislation to the floor. Social Security is not the primary driver of our debt explosion, it’s the health care entitlements. And if you want to prevent a debt crisis from occurring, you have to deal with Obamacare by repealing it and these health care entitlements; and Social Security is not the primary driver of this explosion of debt that’s going to give us a debt crisis.

For more on Social Security, I strongly recommend reading Charles Blahous. Back in December, he wrote a broad overview of Social Security’s finances for Economics 21.