John,
Donald Trump has put Social Security squarely in his crosshairs. His administration is moving to shut down field offices, cut staff, and push services online, even though millions of seniors and people with disabilities depend on in-person help. This is a deliberate effort to make Social Security harder to access and easier to undermine.
These offices are lifelines. They help seniors navigate retirement, survivors access benefits after the loss of a loved one, and people with disabilities get the support they need to survive. When offices close or are understaffed, people wait months, sometimes years, for help they are legally entitled to receive.
This is a deliberate strategy to weaken Social Security without openly voting to cut it. By making the system harder to use, Trump and his allies hope people will give up, fall through the cracks, or stop trusting the program altogether. That is privatization by neglect.
Social Security is a promise, paid for by workers over a lifetime of labor. It belongs to the people, not to politicians who want to sabotage it behind closed doors.
Tell the Social Security Administration to stop closing offices, restore staffing, and protect in-person services nationwide.
For millions of Americans, especially rural residents, seniors without reliable internet, and people with disabilities, online-only services are not a solution. They are a barrier. When offices disappear, entire communities lose access to benefits they have earned.
This assault will hit hardest where help is already scarce. Long travel distances, inaccessible buildings, and understaffed phone lines turn basic rights into obstacles. That is not efficiency. It is abandonment.
Social Security has kept generations out of poverty. Undermining its accessibility threatens the economic security of families today and the future stability of the program itself.
We must act now to protect Social Security offices and defend the right of every person to access the benefits they earned with dignity.
Tell the SSA to protect Social Security offices and stop this quiet dismantling now.
Together, we can defend Social Security and the people who depend on it.
- DFA AF Team
