John,

If all goes according to plan, the Senate will vote tomorrow on the budget resolution that will kick off the budget reconciliation process. Democrats are planning moves to take decisive climate action, expand Medicare, expand home and community-based services, and more. If we succeed, this will be one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation since the New Deal.

But first, we have to get through vote-a-rama.

Once the resolution passes, the Senate will begin a process where any senator can offer off an amendment without notice for a vote almost immediately. The process can go on all night, and produce some weird vote results, which nevertheless can become law.

Social Security Works is watching this process closely, and briefing Senators on which amendments are, effectively, Social Security cuts. This is an intense process that requires round-the-clock organizing. Rush a donation of $7 today!

In February, when the Senate debated the American Rescue Plan, Mitt Romney slipped a non-binding resolution based on his Social Security-cutting TRUST Act into the vote-a-rama, and it passed 71-29! Fortunately, that resolution was merely a signal of support for Mitt’s plan, and didn’t become law.

But so-called “moderates” in both the House and Senate are starting to make noises about the amount of spending in the reconciliation plan. The TRUST Act is designed to prey on these types of Democrats.

The TRUST Act sets up a fast-tracked, closed door process to allow Congress to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Of course, Mitt and his fellow TRUST Act supporters don’t frame it that way―they say it’s about “bipartisan deficit reduction.” And make no mistake: The TRUST Act has much in common with the Obama-era deficit scaremongering that Social Security Works was founded to fight.

The idea that the TRUST Act signals deficit reduction is an absurd notion, because Social Security doesn’t contribute a single penny to the deficit―it’s independently funded by contributions that working Americans make with every paycheck. But just because something isn’t true doesn’t mean that Republicans won’t use it as an excuse to cut our earned benefits.

We’re going to stop them. Chip in $7 now to fight back against Mitt Romney’s TRUST Act and any other bad amendments that the Senate takes up! Together, we will make sure that we EXPAND Social Security benefits, never cut them.

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Thanks,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works