John,

First, Donald Trump went on CNBC and announced that there was “a lot you could do” to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Then, the Republican Study Committee released a plan to cut Social Security by $1.5 trillion.

But cable news has spent more time covering Donald Trump’s favorite Snapchat filters than telling voters the stakes for programs that affect all of them. In the 48 hours following Trump’s announcement, the three biggest cable news networks dedicated just 30 minutes between them to Trump’s plan.

Tell the CEOs for Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC: Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot this November! Your viewers deserve to know it!

Our democracy depends on a media that informs our citizens. If Americans don’t know the stakes of the election, they can’t make an informed vote.

The Republican plan for Social Security:

• Phases out spousal and children’s benefits for middle-class workers, punishing women who take time out of the workforce to care for loved ones.

• Uses a stingier calculation to determine how benefits keep pace with inflation―meaning seniors will struggle even more with rising prices.

• Revokes Medicare’s hard-won power to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs, transferring money from seniors’ pockets to Big Pharma donors.

• Accelerates the privatization of Medicare.

Meanwhile, the majority of Democrats in Congress have endorsed plans to increase Social Security benefits and extend its funding by taxing wealthy people at the same rate as the rest of us.

This is the story people are missing―and we need the media to cover it! Tell Fox, CNN and MSNBC to cover the Republican plot to dismantle Social Security and Medicare!

Thank you,

Alex Lawson
Social Security Works