TELL CONGRESS: 90 years of Social Security delivering benefits to seniors and people with
disabilities could be coming to an end. Trump’s cuts to SSA and a new
backdoor to privatizing the program makes the fight to save Social
Security urgent. Sign the petition: Block Trump’s move to slash and destroy Social Security!
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For 90 years, Social Security has paid benefits in full and on time. Until
now.
Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE slashed the Social Security Administration
(SSA) staff by 7,000 people and tried to cover up the disastrous impact on
millions of beneficiaries.^1 “Trump’s cuts to the Social Security
Administration could not come at a worse time,” said Democrats on the
Senate Finance Committee.^2
Even worse, Trump’s disastrous budget included a “backdoor” for Trump to
privatize Social Security.^3 The law, which gives massive tax breaks to
billionaires and slashes Medicaid, will also accelerate the insolvency of
Social Security.^4
Despite Trump’s claims that he wouldn’t cut Social Security, it’s clear
that the White House is taking steps to destroy the benefits program. Our
lawmakers must rally behind nine decades of delivering for seniors and
people with disabilities, and fight to save the Social Security
Administration.
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White House privatize and destroy Social Security!
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Recently, the Trump administration isn’t even trying to hide its insidious
plans for one of the most popular public benefits programs in the country.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent openly admitted that Trump’s big budget
includes a “backdoor way for privatizing Social Security.”^5
The existential threat to Social Security has grown ever-more serious
under Trump 2.0. Republicans have taken a buzzsaw to Medicaid, the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau, veteran’s health care, funding for cancer research, and so much
more. These attacks on Social Security are real, and urgent.
“Republicans' ultimate goal is to privatize Social Security, and there
isn't a backdoor they won't try to make Wall Street's dream a reality,”
said the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard
Neal.^6
Social Security provides tens of millions of seniors and people with
disabilities with economic security and the ability to live with dignity.
Our lawmakers can’t allow the Trump administration to take this critical
program away from so many people.
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Joey and the Demand Progress team
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Sources:
1. Common Dreams, "Dems Denounce Trump Official for Hiding Social
Security Service Metrics,” [ [link removed] ]July 14, 2025.
2. U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, "Wyden Leads Bill to Reverse Trump
Cuts at Social Security and Protect Benefits,” [ [link removed] ]August 13, 2025.
3. Common Dreams, "Bessent Admits Trump Tax Scam Offers 'Backdoor for
Privatizing Social Security',” [ [link removed] ]July 30, 2025.
4. ABC News, "Social Security's 90th anniversary marked by funding
threats and privatization talk,” [ [link removed] ]August 14, 2025.
5. Common Dreams, "Bessent Admits Trump Tax Scam Offers 'Backdoor for
Privatizing Social Security',” [ [link removed] ]July 30, 2025.
6. Ibid.
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