John,

Mitt Romney just re-introduced the TRUST Act for 2021―which means that one of the most insidious attacks on our Social Security system has a legislative vehicle once again.

Sen. Romney introduced this bill last year. We defeated it then and we’re going to defeat it again. But it’s going to take a lot of work.

Chip in $7 today to our emergency fund to save Social Security from the TRUST Act!

The TRUST Act creates closed-door, fast-track commissions to circumvent public opinion and force cuts to our earned benefits. The last thing we want is more autocrats in DC trampling the will of the people―who overwhelmingly want these programs protected and expanded!

Sen. Romney and his allies tried to attach the TRUST Act to pieces of emergency COVID response legislation over the past year, effectively trying to fast-track cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for the economic devastation of the pandemic.

The TRUST Act’s authors utterly mis-state the drivers of the federal debt. It’s not Social Security and Medicare, it’s runaway inequality coupled with massive tax giveaways to the super-rich. But Mitt Romney is personally the beneficiary of those massive tax giveaways, so naturally, he’s looking to blame programs that lift seniors out of poverty instead of paying his fair share into Social Security and Medicare.

We stopped the TRUST Act before. We’re going to do it again. Chip in $7 today!

Here’s the bottom line: Politicians don’t hide behind closed doors when they’re doing something you’d like. They hide behind fast-tracked commissions and closed-door committees to shield themselves from public accountability. That’s not how democracies are supposed to work.

Together, we’re going to defeat the TRUST Act and expand our Social Security system!

Thanks,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works