We're fighting to address the retirement income crisis by protecting and expanding our Social Security system.
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Alex Lawson: We're the richest country in the history of the world.
Of course we can afford healthcare for everyone. Of course we can afford a dignified retirement for everyone.
The only thing standing in our way is less than 1000 billionaires who have corrupted the system
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Congresswoman @AOC is absolutely right. People's lives are NOT commodities, and health care - including medicine - is a human right.
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"People's lives are not commodities...you cannot ask the question how much will you pay to live, because the answer is everything.
That is what makes the price of medicine different than the price of an iPhone." - @AOC
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk say they have "no obligation to send out" a Social Security or Medicare payment they decide is "wasteful".
That is THEFT from Americans who've earned those benefits.
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"I reject the idea that universal healthcare is impossible...We need to return to our FDR roots as a party." - @AOC
#MedicareForAll
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FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
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Social Security has contracts with every state that allow parents to register their newborns for Social Security cards at the hospital.
They also contract with states to find out when people die.
A week ago, the Trump Admin canceled both contracts with one state β Maine.
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REMINDER: It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for Social Security to go bankrupt and we can expand benefits if wealthy elites pay their fair share.
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Social Security Works President Nancy Altman: I've now worked on this program for 50 of those 90 years and I'll tell you the biggest threat Social Security has ever faced is Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and we have to make sure that they do not win.
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"A 65 year old calls the helpline to apply for Social Security, but he's told about the new DOGE rule. So he has to go online or in person.
It takes 3 months. He misses $5000 in benefits checks, which by law he will never get back. Is that a benefit cut?" @SenWarren
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REMINDER: Social Security cannot by law add even a penny to the deficit.
Any proposal to cut Social Security benefits as a means of deficit reduction is just a ploy to steal your earned benefits!
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Rep. Richard Neal: The average benefit is $24,000. That means half the people who get Social Security get less than $24,000 a year.
That's less than 400 bucks a week.
So for me, not a dime to be cut from Social Security, not a dime.
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The public is acting as early investor, putting tons of money in the development of drugs that then become privatized.
They receive no return on the investment that they have made. - @AOC
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.@AOC is right. The only way to end the unrest is to end the root cause: oppression.
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees itβs time to scrap the cap?
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The Social Security Expansion Act, intro'd by @SenSanders today, would:
- Make Social Security solvent for the next 75 years.
- Lift millions of seniors out of poverty
- Expand benefits for seniors and people with disabilities by $2400 a year
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House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Thatβs TRILLION.
With a T.
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Alex Lawson to @RepMMM: Last time you spoke with us you lied to our face and said you wouldnβt vote for Medicaid cuts, but youβve voted for the largest cuts in history.
Do you have any comment on the health care 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees itβs time to scrap the cap?
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REMINDER: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Itβs time to scrap the cap.
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Sedor: Bernie has a bill. Itβs long past due. Itβs called the Social Security Expansion Act. It would make Musk and the other billionaires pay into Social Security just like the rest of us, and it would use that money to increase everyoneβs Social Security.
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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks β and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wants to force retirees back into the workforce.
Our Executive Director Alex Lawson tells him hell no. Let's make billionaires pay their fair share into Social Security instead!
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My father had Social Security in the amount of about $300.
He would not have called if he did not get his check. He had dementia. But the people who take care of him would have called because it made the difference of him keeping a roof over his head. @AndreaSCousins
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SHAMEFUL:
Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) has a net worth of $52,127,252.
He wants to cut your Social Security benefits to force you to work longer.
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BREAKING: Social Securityβs trustees report that the system is fully affordable, as long as we make the wealthy pay in at the same rate as the rest of us.
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The average Social Security benefit is about $1,700 a month.
$1,700 is not enough to enjoy a secure retirement.
Who thinks itβs about time to expand benefits?
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"There is no reason for a drug as simple as insulin, which costs $21 in Canada, to cost the equivalent of a mortgage payment." - @AOC #Insulin4all #medicareforall
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When FDR first proposed Social Security, Republicans attacked it as "socialism." They haven't changed their tactics in over eighty years.
Sometimes we take for granted exactly how radical ideas like Social Security, the VA, and public schooling really are: that we will care for our elders, provide healthcare, and educate *all* children in America free of cost at the point of service.
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I saw Secretary Lutnick claiming that if his mother-in-law missed a Social Security check, she wouldn't notice.
She happens to be related to a billionaire. But seniors in Georgia are not. If they miss a Social Security check then they're cutting their pills in half. @SenOssoff
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SOCIAL SECURITY NEVER MISSES!
In 87 years, Social Security has delivered earned benefits to seniors, people with disabilities, and survivors AND NEVER MISSED A PAYMENT.
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Rep. @StevenHorsford: "Elon Musk and his hackers need to take their grubby, greedy hands off of Social Security." π₯π₯π₯
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The #TrumpBudget cuts:
- $500,000,000,000 from Medicare.
- $75,700,000,000 from Social Security and its companion program, Supplemental Security Income.
The best way to make sure these cuts never happen?
VOTE HIM OUT!
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Lawson: Rep. Miller-Meeks won by 800 votes. If she gets her way, 67,000 of her constituents lose health care.
Weβre here to tell @RepMMM sheβs going to lose her job.
Last time we spoke to her, she lied to our faces and said they were not cutting Medicaid. They absolutely are!
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REMINDER: Social Security CANNOT go bankrupt, but we can protect and expand benefits if the ultrarich pay their fair share!
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Dr. Oz wants to fully privatize Medicare. Thatβs why Donald Trump put him in charge of Medicare.
We will fight to stop this charlatan from getting anywhere near our Medicare system.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's plan to terminate Social Security's funding would eliminate disability benefits in 2021 and retirement + survivor benefits in 2023 ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/VanHolβ¦
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.
Anyone think itβs time to scrap the cap?
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Senator John Thune (R-SD), Mitch McConnellβs top lieutenant, has laid out the Republican plan to force Social Security cuts.
We need to re-elect Sen. Warnock to ensure a strong Senate majority to protect our earned benefits!
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In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less.
We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to unilaterally close four out of every five Social Security offices, and replace the experienced, knowledgeable Social Security workers with AI chatbots.
We must keep fighting to protect the benefits and customer service weβve already paid for.
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Billionaires call Social Security a βnightmare.β
You know whatβs a nightmare?
Working your entire life to earn benefits then handing your retirement to Wall Street tax crooks.
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Social Securityβs problem isnβt that benefits are too highβask any senior!
The problem is that billionaires want to steal the money and line their own pockets with it.
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Last night, Sen. Mike Lee wrote a blueprint for destroying Social Security.
Leeβs thread was quickly amplified by Elon Musk.
Republicans have declared war against seniors, people with disabilities, and the American public.
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Tonight, Rep. Katherine Clark got straight to the point on the Capitol steps: Republicans are breaking Medicaid so they can rob it! π¨
@WhipKClark #HandsOffMedicaid
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FDR is "the real 'Make America Great Again' President because of it weren't for him, older Americans wouldn't even get Social Security." - @iamcardib
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Without those contracts, SSA did not automatically know who was born in Maine β or who died.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing their best to make their fantasy of dead people getting Social Security benefits a reality.
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American taxpayers paid $50 million for the development of a life saving HIV prevention drug. But big pharma corp Gilead price gouged the drug to the point where people die because they canβt afford it. Thank you @AOC for calling out their horrific greed.
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βIt will be my objective to phase out Social Security. - Sen. Mike Lee says the quiet part out loud.
Republicans are declaring a war on seniors.
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BREAKING: After meeting with Elon Musk, Republican leader Sen. John Thune announces plans to cut Social Security
HANDS OFF OUR EARNED BENEFITS!
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"Last year, the Social Security Inspector General issued a report showing Social Security has a criminal fraud rate of 0.009%.
As a percentage, that's much lower than the 1.4 billion in assets that reportedly went missing on the Tesla balance sheet just last week." @RonWyden
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BREAKING: We showed @RepMTG campaign flyers from Donald Trump, pledging to protect Social Security and Medicare.
We asked her if the House DOGE Caucus would keep that pledge.
She tossed the flyers on the floor.
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BREAKING: @RepGregLopez says outside the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus that "there will be some cuts" to Social Security and Medicare.
HANDS OFF OUR EARNED BENEFITS!
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BREAKING NEWS: The big ugly Republican bill includes $500 BILLION in cuts to Medicare, along with over $700 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid.
They tried to hide in the dead of night, but the American people are watching!
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GOP Senators just voted down @SenSanders amendment to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
That's because the #GOPTaxScam cuts $400 billion from Medicare and 5 million beneficeries from Medicaid. They want to cut Social Security too.
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Social Security is the American people's EARNED BENEFIT β not a piggy bank for Republicans to hand over to their Wall Street donors.
Don't let them steal our money.
VOTE to protect Social Security this November! #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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"DOGE wanted access to SSAβs sensitive files, and the acting commissioner wouldnβt give it, and she was replaced,β said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works.
βThere is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is."
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"The ultra wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every 10 years. That is enough to keep Social Security whole till the end of this century." - @RonWyden
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Trump-appointed acting commissioner Leland Dudek is refusing to comply with a court order to stop Elon Muskβs DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data.
Instead, Dudek is threatening to shut down Social Security so that 70m Americans won't get their benefits.
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"I want my Social Security. I started working when I was 16. I have paid into the system and my employers have paid into the system for close to 50 years, and I want my money." - Linda Falcao
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It's time for billionaires to pay the same tax rate as the rest of us.
ALT White text on a black background that says, "If billionaires like Elon Musk paid into Social Security at the same rate as the rest of us on all of their income, we could expand benefits for everyone and pay them in full forever."
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Every member of the U.S. House is on the ballot in two years.
If they try to cut ONE PENNY from Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, we will make sure that they lose their jobs.
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Never trust anyone who would rather raise the retirement age than make the rich pay their fair share into Social Security!
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"A Republican representative who is a member of the DOGE Caucus told me personally that there will be cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
These cuts are being proposed to offset the cost of tax handouts for billionaires." - Alex Lawson
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I truly believe that the Musk-Trump co-presidency has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater the Social Security Administration.
For the first time in 90 years, benefits are going to be interrupted. - @martinomalley
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We have one simple message: Elon Musk, keep your hands off of our Social Security! - @ChrisVanHollen
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Does that sound fair to you?
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Elon Musk gutted Twitterβs staff by 80%... and look how that worked out.
Now, he wants to close 4 out of 5 Social Security offices and replace workers with chatbots.
We say HELL NO to attacks on seniors and taxpayers.
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"My Social Security check is very modest. Only $1,513 a month.
But it is a lifeline. It has kept me and my family out of homeless shelters for 20 years.
No one thinks that they are going to need this lifeline. Until they have an accident or a medical event." - Judith Brown
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Social Securityβs problem isnβt that benefits are too high.
The problem is billionaires who refuse to pay their fair share.
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Congress is about to vote on a Republican budget that would destroy Medicaid.
These 17 House Republicans won by fewer votes than the number of people they want to steal health care from.
We are sending billboards to their districts to demand they vote NO on the budget.
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It's not just Rick Scott.
156 House Republicans released a plan to raise the retirement age to 70.
RT if you don't want to work till you die!
#DontMessWithSocialSecurity
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Yesterday, Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson approached Members of Congress as they entered and exited the first meeting of the House DOGE Caucus. The following is a statement from Lawson:
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Bloomberg is on tape unambiguously calling for Social Security cuts.
This rating - which @PolitiFact arrived at by talking to an austerity think tank - is utterly wrong, and does a disservice to the institution of factchecking.
NEW:
@BernieSanders said @MikeBloomberg backed #Medicare #SocialSecurity cuts while opposing tax hike on the wealthy.
That's misleading.
bit.ly/2v0iVV1
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"I've been working on Social Security for 50 years. It's gone through wars and pandemics.
It has never seen a threat like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Frank Bisignano, the nominee to be commissioner.
There's never been a more important time to speak up." - Nancy Altman
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.@SenSanders: You're telling the American people that the American Medical Associationβrepresenting hundreds of thousands of peopleβhave been co-opted and that they should not trust their doctors?
Everybody is corrupt, but you? Is that what we're looking at? I don't think so.
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For 89 years, Social Security has never missed a paymentβeven during wars and recessions.
Each generation has paid into the system. Letβs expand benefits for current and future generations!
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are breaking Social Security "so then after wrecking it, they can rob it." - @martinomalley
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Hereβs the truth: making billionaires pay their fair share would strengthen Social Security and Medicare for generations.
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REMINDER: It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for Social Security to go bankrupt and we can expand benefits if wealthy elites pay their fair share.
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Everyone who spends a lifetime working and contributing to Social Security deserves a dignified retirement.
This should not be controversial.
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Last night, 233 Representatives voted to steal Social Security's $2.9 trillion surplus: bit.ly/2EIW66Z
Thankfully, the so-called balanced budget amendment did not get the 2/3rds majority required to pass. But these reps are now on the record. RT to spread their shame!
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The Social Security 2100 Act "would guarantee Social Security solvency for years to come.
It would require that the super wealthy have to pay their fair share.
What's wrong with that? Nothing that I can think of." - @RepGaramendi
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If Republican Medicaid cuts become law:
"Hospitals will close. Nursing homes will shut down. People will die. All to enact the largest tax break for billionaires in American history." @RepJeffries
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The Supreme Court decision allowing DOGE full, unfettered access to the public's sensitive personal Social Security data is a loss for all of us.
No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.
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BREAKING: New Republican Speaker Mike Johnson just called for a "debt commission".
That's code for a DEATH PANEL designed to cut Social Security and Medicare behind closed doors!
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216 Republican Reps. voted for a budget that cuts Medicare + Medicaid to pay for a tax giveaway to the wealthy.
RT to spread their shame!
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None of this is about efficiency. None of this is about fraud prevention. This is about making it harder for seniors and people with people with disabilities to access the benefits they've earned.
- Barry Kaufman, President of the NYS @ActiveRetirees
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After the media broke the story, SSA issued a press release this morning abruptly reversing course.
But the damage has been done.
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Itβs time to scrap the cap.
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"Social Security is being deliberately sabotaged." - SSA Claims Technical Expert Rennie Glasgow
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Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.
They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.
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Nowβs a good time to remind everyone that OVER 99 PERCENT of all Social Security payments are made accurately and on time.
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Social Security is being torn apart by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
We cannot allow them to dismantle America's most timely, effective, and beloved program!
@MartinOMalley
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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.
Itβs time to scrap the cap!
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Trump has no health care plan
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This is the system used for Social Security payments.
Elon Musk, who NO ONE VOTED FOR, wants to mess with our earned benefits.
Hell no.
SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say
Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE
Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual
David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.
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There is no policy reason for cancelling the contracts, and many policy reasons not to.
The only explanation is political revenge against Maine Governor Janet Mills, who has recently defied the Trump Administration.
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The Social Security Administration is not a Democratic agency. It's not a Republican agency. It's the people's agency! Social Security is not something that they are giving to us. It's something that we've earned.
-Shelley Washington, @AFGENational
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