Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration's welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had "taken a hatchet" to Social Security,

The immediate former United States of America president, Joe Biden, in his first major speech since leaving the White House, tackled his predecessor, Donald Trump’s administration reforms at Social Security,

In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction,’ the former president told crowds gathered in Chicago