U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz decried a Trump administration proposal that she and her Democratic colleagues warn would result in “one of the largest cuts to Social Security disability benefits in history.”

The Democratic congresswoman's warning comes on the heels of a report in The Washington Post that the administration is putting together a plan that "would make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments" and cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose benefits. The proposal would eliminate age as a factor entirely or raising the threshold to age 60 to qualify for disability benefits, the newspaper reported.

“This betrayal is a step too far," Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, told reporters on Thursday at a press conference in Broward County

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