EVERYONE knows by now NOT MY pres drumpf / trump is a compulsive, repulsive sociopathic psychopathic LIAR. He campaigned promising to protect and maintain Social Security but all along has been planning to privatize it. Please sign this petition from Demand Progress telling congress to protect Social Security from privatization and also e mail your representative and senators to prevent the privatizing of Social Security and to strengthen it by lifting the tax cap ( the amount of income subject to Social Security taxes, set at $176,000 for 2025 ). My e mails will be at the end of this post.....
TELL CONGRESS: After months of slashing funding and staff at the Social Security Administration, the White House now says that Trump's big budget law includes a "backdoor way for privatizing Social Security." The fight to protect Social Security is urgent. Sign the petition: Block Trump's scheme to destroy Social Security. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent openly admitted that Trump’s big budget bill includes a "backdoor way for privatizing Social Security."1 The existential threat to Social Security has grown ever-more serious under Trump 2.0. For months, the Trump administration, DOGE and GOP leaders have taken a sledgehammer to the Social Security Administration. The White House fired thousands of workers at the agency and closed field offices. Call wait times are now the worst on record, with seniors waiting hours, days, or weeks just to get basic help with the income they rely on.2,3 Now, the Trump administration isn’t even trying to hide its attacks on Social Security. Our lawmakers need to take action immediately and save the public benefits program before Trump rips it away from millions of people. Sign the petition: Don’t let Trump privatize and destroy Social Security!Trump has claimed over and over again that he won’t touch Social Security. But the reality is that his big ugly budget bill not only slashed Medicaid and handed tax breaks to billionaires — it also set in motion a plan to undermine Social Security. “Republicans' ultimate goal is to privatize Social Security, and there isn't a backdoor they won’t try to make Wall Street's dream a reality,” said the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal.4 For decades, Social Security has provided tens of millions of seniors and people with disabilities with economic security and the ability to live with dignity. Our lawmakers can’t allow the Trump administration to take this critical program away from so many people. Sign the petition: Save Social Security from DOGE and Trump!Thanks for taking action,  Sources:
Contributions to ActBlue Civics and Demand Progress Action are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Join our online community on Instagram or Twitter. "Despite their repeated claims they wanted to protect Social Security, the Trump administration said the quiet part out loud," said one critic in response to the billionaire treasury secretary's candid comments. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday admitted that a provision in Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a mechanism for privatizing Social Security—something President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he won't do. Speaking at a policy event hosted by the far-right news site Breitbart, Bessent touted the so-called "Trump accounts" available to all U.S. citizen children starting next July under the OBBBA signed by the president earlier this month. "In a way, it is a backdoor way for privatizing Social Security," the billionaire former hedge fund manager said of the accounts. "Social Security is a defined benefit plan paid out—that to the extent that if all of a sudden these accounts grow, and you have in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement, that's a game-changer." Responding to Bessent's admission, Tim Hogan—the Democratic National Committee senior adviser for messaging, mobilization, and strategy—said that the treasury secretary "just said the quiet part out loud: The administration is scheming to privatize Social Security." "It wasn't enough to kick millions of people off their healthcare and take food away from hungry kids," Hogan added. "Trump is now coming after American seniors with a 'backdoor' scam to take away the benefits they earned. Democrats won't stand by as Trump screws over working families in order to give more handouts to billionaires." House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement: "Today, the treasury secretary said the quiet part out loud: Republicans' ultimate goal is to privatize Social Security, and there isn't a backdoor they won't try to make Wall Street's dream a reality. For everyone else though, it's yet another warning sign that they cannot be trusted to safeguard the program millions rely on and have paid into over a lifetime of work." Nancy Altman, president of the advocacy group Social Security Works, mocked Trump's promises to preserve the key program upon which more than 70 million Americans rely—and called him out for eviscerating the Social Security Administration (SSA). "So much for Donald Trump's campaign promise to protect Social Security," Altman said in a statement. "First, he gave Elon Musk the power to gut SSA. Now, Trump's treasury secretary has said the quiet part out loud. He is bragging about the administration's goal to privatize Social Security." "First, they are undermining public confidence in Social Security by making false claims about fraud (which is virtually nonexistent) and wrecking the system's service to the public," Altman continued. "Then, once they have broken Social Security, they will say that Wall Street needs to come in and save it." "That is a terrible idea," she added. "Unlike private savings, Social Security is a guaranteed earned benefit that you can't outlive. It has stood strong through wars, recessions, and pandemics. The American people have a message for Trump and Bessent: Keep Wall Street's hands off our Social Security!" Alliance for Retired Americans executive director Richard Fiesta said that "Bessent let the cat out of the bag: This administration is coming for Social Security." "We're not surprised—but we are alarmed because this administration has already taken multiple steps to weaken and dismantle Social Security," Fiesta added, highlighting the weakening of the SSA, false fraud claims, and "the massive tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations" under the OBBBA that experts say will hasten the Social Security Trust Fund's insolvency. The progressive watchdog Accountable.US called Bessent's remarks "a shocking confession." "Despite their repeated claims they wanted to protect Social Security, the Trump administration said the quiet part out loud: The Big Ugly Betrayal is a backdoor way to privatize Social Security," Accountable.US executive director Tony Carrk said in a statement. "Once again the administration is risking the financial security of millions of Americans in order to protect a system rigged in the favor of big corporations and billionaires," Carrk added. In another blow to Social Security recipients, the Trump administration is set to implement a new policy next month that is expected to further increase wait times for basic services. As Common Dreams reported Wednesday, starting in mid-August, SSA will no longer allow seniors to use their phones for routine tasks they've been able to perform for decades. From Your Site Articles
MY E MAILS TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN WARNER D-VA AND SEN KAINE D-VA NOT MY pres drumpf / trump plans on privatizing Social Security though he campaigned on protecting it. Privatizing Social Security is not protecting it. I expect you to work with the entire Virginia congressional delegation as will as representatives and senators of all states from both parties to prevent Social Security from being privatized. I also expect you to work with these politicians to eliminate the Social Security tax cap or at the very least to raise it from $176,000.00 to a minimum of $500,000.00. I, like the majority of retirees, need my Social Security, and also want it to be financially viable for future retirees. Thank you |
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