John,

The Wall Street-funded drumbeat for Social Security cuts is building up steam. This morning, Washington Post “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler published a column excoriating the Republican Study Committee’s budget to cut Social Security by $700 billion―because it doesn’t cut Social Security enough.¹

And yesterday, the anti-Social Security group the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget released a letter from “thought leaders” backing MAGA Republican Jodey Arrington’s proposal for a closed-door commission to cut Social Security.²

What both Kessler and the “thought leaders” ignore are the real plans that expand Social Security and keep the program strong for decades to come―including the Social Security Expansion Act from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the Social Security 2100 Act from Representative John Larson. That is the dead giveaway that they don’t care about retirement security―they just want to slash our earned benefits.

Social Security’s finances aren’t a problem on a spreadsheet―it’s people’s lives. Any proposal that leaves retirees worse off in order to shore up the Social Security trust fund doesn’t solve any problems―it just shifts the problems from politicians to millions of retirees. We will not let that happen.

We’re mobilizing to smash this closed-door commission to pieces before it can even be formed. Can you chip in $7 to protect our Social Security system from Wall Street greed?

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¹ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/19/how-not-fix-social-security-by-gop-group-biden/
² https://www.crfb.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/9.18.23 Commission Open Letter.pdf

-- MICHAEL'S EMAIL --

John,

Last night, House Republicans trumpeted a plan to avoid shutting down the government. If you read the fine print though, that plan is unlikely to even receive a vote in the House, let alone pass the Senate. They’re simply interested in telling the media a story that they’re moving towards an agreement while they finalize their budget.

The long-term plan will come out of the Budget committee. And last week, the Budget chairman, Republican Rep. Jodey Arrington, previewed its contents for Politico:[1]

The House Republican budget resolution will save $16 trillion over a decade, Arrington said. To reach that number, GOP leaders will count the spurring of economic growth, as well as “serious reform” to other federal entitlement programs like Medicaid.

That’s where Republicans are headed: As much as $16 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.

And that’s not all: Arrington, a veteran of George W. Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security, plans to propose a closed-door commission to fast-track cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security Works is launching an all-out campaign to make sure these Medicaid cuts never happen and this commission never forms. We need your help―can you donate $7 today?

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