John,

Social Security Works was founded in 2010, shortly after the creation of a closed-door commission designed to give political cover for cutting Social Security and Medicare. The conventional wisdom in DC was that everyone knew that our earned benefits would be cut―the only question was by how much.

I went to those closed door meetings and livestreamed the closed door. If the American people couldn’t see the discussions that were taking place, I was going to get them as close as I could. Thousands of people watched these videos of a closed door, day after day…until one day, retired Senator Alan Simpson came out of the room and angrily confirmed to me that they were discussing benefit cuts.¹ Millions of people saw that―and we defeated the commission.

Social Security Works knows how to fight these commissions and save our earned benefits. But it’s a heck of a lot easier to stop these commissions before they start. Can you rush $7 to crush the Social Security debt panel now?

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Alex Lawson
Social Security Works

¹ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alan-simpson-in-profanity_n_617232

-- MICHAEL'S EMAIL--

John,

The Wall Street drumbeat to appoint a secret, super-powered commission to meet behind closed doors and destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid got a little louder today, with two retired Senators publishing an op-ed in the Washington Post.

The Washington Post, which adopted the slogan “Democracy dies in darkness” during the Trump era, is now giving a platform to Wall Street-funded ex-politicians who hope to drag our earned benefits into darkness and slash them to pieces.

President Biden has rightly called this idea “Death panels for Medicare and Social Security.”¹ We’re going to stop them.

John, Social Security Works have already sent tens of thousands of messages to Congress opposing this idea. Can you help us take this campaign to the next level with a $7 donation?

With the government just three days from a MAGA-led shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has offered to create a commission that matches these Wall Street lackeys’ demands. And because the commission would be directed to “Address” the long-term funding, rather than explicitly told to “cut” benefits, he can sell it to the media as something other than a death panel.

But it’s clear: The only reason to drag Social Security and Medicare behind a closed door is to slash benefits. Recent polling showed that 81% of Americans would prefer Congress never cut Social Security and Medicare, compared to just 13% who would prefer even a bipartisan reduction of Social Security and Medicare benefits to reduce the deficit.²

The solution is obvious to everyone outside of Washington DC: Make the wealthy pay their fair share by having them contribute to Social Security on their full paychecks throughout the year, and take action to stop private health care corporations from Big Pharma to Humana from treating the Medicare trust fund as their personal piggy banks. These politicians want the grift to keep going―even if it means taking your earned benefits.

Together, we can stop them. Donate $7 to our emergency campaign to crush any commission before it starts!

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¹ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-06/white-house-slams-gop-entitlement-commission-as-death-panel
² https://socialsecurityworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dfp_ssw_mccarthy_commission.pdf