John,
This month, Social Security turns 90 and working people are getting together to celebrate the nation’s most effective federal anti-poverty program and fight back against attempts to dismantle it.
Join me and special guests for a webinar on Thursday, Aug. 7, at 6 p.m. EDT, to hear about how we are taking to the streets to protect our earned benefits!
Social Security helps 16 million older adults and roughly 1 million children stay above the poverty line every month, and 97 percent of Americans receive or will receive Social Security after earning it through years of hard work.
Yet President Donald Trump is betraying working families, who trusted him to improve their lives, by giving more power and control to the wealthy.
The commissioner of the Social Security Administration, who is a billionaire, and the DOGE personnel Elon Musk installed have made it harder for those entitled to Social Security to get it—imposing draconian repayment plans on beneficiaries who received overpayments through no fault of their own, threatening to make it harder for new parents to apply for Social Security numbers for their infants, and giving outsiders access to Americans’ most private data. Now families who are already facing rising consumer prices and threats to Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act are also dealing with long wait times when seeking assistance with Social Security.
And just recently, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent admitted that Trump’s big, ugly bill provides a “back-door to privatizing Social Security.”
No! We will not tolerate these attacks on our kids, our families and our communities.
Click here to join us on Thursday.
We’ll celebrate 90 years of Social Security and discuss how to fight back against attacks on workers’ earned benefits.
In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President
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