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John,
The Wall Street-funded drumbeat toward a closed-door commission is continuing, as the dysfunctional House of Representatives inches closer to a government shutdown.
Corporate right-wing think tank AEI held a public “Conversation” with Republican House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington, the most enthusiastic cheerleader for a closed-door commission.
The goal is to make a commission with Social Security cuts feel inevitable.
When the immigration deal falls apart and Republicans demand SOME concessions in exchange for funding the government, Arrington’s plan is to have the closed-door commission to cut Social Security as the last train left in the station.
There’s nothing inevitable about Social Security cuts. If the rich pay their fair share, we can not only pay every promised benefit―we can also EXPAND benefits for millions of Americans. We’re fighting back against cuts, building the resistance to a fiscal commission on Capitol Hill. Can you pitch in to help us fight back?
Let’s be clear: The commission Rep. Arrington has proposed, and Speaker Mike Johnson hoped to create “immediately,” won’t be as easy to defeat as the ones we’ve faced in the past.
Unlike the Obama-era Bowles-Simpson commission―which required the support of two-thirds of its members―a bare majority of the members of Arrington’s commission could bring an un-amendable, un-fillabusterable bill to a vote in Congress. This isn’t a plan to create consensus―it’s a plan to force unpopular cuts on a disapproving public.
The best way to stop a commission is before it is created. Together, we can win.
Can you rush a $7 donation to Social Security Works today?
Thank you,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
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