John,

Together, we’ve mobilized hard against the Trump White House’s two pet attacks on our Social Security system―Jared Kushner’s “Eagle Plan” to raise the retirement age and Trump himself’s push to take away Social Security and Medicare’s dedicated funding (what he calls the payroll tax).

Now, there’s another front in the Republican war on seniors: Sen. Mitt Romney is pushing for Congress to pass his TRUST Act, which would create a fast-track process to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, behind closed doors.

At a time when current Republican policy is to let seniors die of COVID-19 by the tens of thousands without lifting a finger to help, it is beyond shameful that Mitt’s focus is to rob those same older Americans of their earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.

We have to fight all three of these terrible plans, while fighting for greater protections for nursing homes. The war on seniors has many fronts, but together, we can defeat all of them! Chip in to keep us strong!

Romney’s TRUST Act is particularly insidious because it would create a situation where an unelected commission can go behind closed doors to cut Social Security benefits. It’s an extension of the plan Romney proposed and voters soundly rejected when he ran for President in 2012.

The corporate media loves to fawn over Mitt Romney and call him a 'moderate', simply because he won’t kowtow to Trump. But on actual policy, he remains the same “severe conservative” he was in 2012. He’s held the Republican party line since taking office in 2018 on every issue but impeachment. And now that the American people are on to Trump’s plans to defund and destroy Social Security and Medicare, Romney is trying to ride to the rescue with a new scheme.

If Republicans care about the American people, especially seniors, they’d be passing legislation to get PPE to essential workers, help the unemployed, and rush assistance to the nursing homes that are turning into death traps.

Instead, they are focused on using the pandemic as an excuse to gut our most popular and effective government programs.

We’re fighting to protect seniors from Trump and every politician who joins him in trying to defund and destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Together, we’ll win. Chip in $11 today to protect seniors from Trump and his plans to destroy our earned benefits!

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Thanks,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works