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John,
Today, Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in Fox News:
Why Fox News? Because many Republican households don’t get their news anywhere else. They don’t read The New York Times, they don’t read The Washington Post, and they sure don’t watch MSNBC. But they still love Social Security.
Right-wing media controls a spigot of information that gets into plenty of households that like Social Security, but most of what they hear comes from sources like Sens. Rick Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Ron Johnson―all of whom start from the assumption that Social Security must be destroyed.
Seniors need to know that Social Security is on the ballot this year―we can either destroy it, like Republicans want to do, or expand it, like Democrats do. Donate $7 to our campaign to get out the word!
As Bernie wrote in the op-ed:
Sen. Graham was very honest about his approach to Social Security and the direction in which Republicans should go. His view is that we should raise the retirement age and adopt a plan similar to what Alan Simpson (a former Republican senator from Wyoming) and Erskine Bowles (a former Democratic Wall Street investment banker) proposed nearly a decade ago.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., holds a similar view. In 2020, he told Bloomberg reporter Steven Dennis that he "hopes to work with the next Democratic President to trim Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."
Let’s be clear about the Simpson-Bowles plan, which I strongly opposed. If it had been adopted by Congress in 2013, the retirement age would have been increased to 69, cutting Social Security benefits by 13%.
Needless to say, I have a much different perspective than Sen. Graham and my Republican colleagues. At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and are worried about their ability to retire with dignity and millions of seniors are living in poverty, I believe that our job is not to cut Social Security. Our job must be to expand Social Security so that every senior citizen in America can retire with the respect they deserve and every person with a disability can live with the security they need. [...]
That’s why I introduced the Social Security Expansion Act with seven of my colleagues in the Senate and 22 in the House.
According to the Social Security Administration, our legislation would make Social Security solvent for the next 75 years, expand benefits for seniors and people with disabilities by $2,400 a year, and increase COLAs, which would lift millions of seniors out of poverty.
Donate today to our campaign to make sure that every senior knows: Democrats want to expand Social Security, and Republicans want to cut or destroy it!
Thanks,
Alex Lawson
Social Security Works
P.S. You can read Bernie’s op-ed in full here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dont-cut-social-security-expand-it
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