Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just confessed that the Trump administration is creating "a backdoor to privatizing Social Security."

We already know they're trying to hide publicly available information on the long wait times that seniors have been reporting.

It's all a big effort to end Social Security as we know it and enrich Trump's friends, donors, and businesses.

So, we're raising hell about it and demanding the public get the facts about SSA's daily operations. Lend your support to this fight: pitch in $18 to keep the heat on Republicans and defend our hard-earned Social Security!

Heidi

Forwarded Message

If you believe the public has the right to know exactly what's going on inside the Social Security Administration, keep reading.

Through epic mismanagement, draconian budget cuts, and mass layoffs, the Social Security Administration seems to be just barely getting by. Seniors are reporting extremely long call wait times, employees are being shuffled and rerouted all over the place, and publicly available call wait time information has disappeared from SSA's website.

Instead of owning up to their mistakes with the running of the SSA, politicians would rather keep call wait times and other up-to-the-minute metrics hidden from public view – and public scrutiny.

It's unacceptable, and we're raising hell about it.

Rural and small-town Americans depend on their Social Security benefits that they worked a lifetime earning. They need a competent, functioning Social Security Administration that picks up the phone, answers questions, and solves their problems.

We're demanding that the public be given the facts about how the SSA is operating: We deserve to see live data on call wait times, callback rates, and historical data again so that we can keep our leaders in check and accountable.

It's our right to know where our government is failing and where it's succeeding – especially when it comes to a critical lifeline like Social Security.

Heidi

Heidi Heitkamp, Former U.S. Senator for North Dakota
Founder, One Country Project