CPC Co-Chair Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) kicks us off at our People’s Budget Press Conference.
HUGE thank you to our amazing volunteers for braving the cold today at an event on Capitol Hill.
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April 15th was the last day Congress had to pass a joint budget resolution. This failure to pass a budget transcends the halls of Congress and the Washington echo chamber because a budget is a statement of our values. It is a blueprint of our priorities for the American people. With Congressional Republicans incapable of moving forward on the most essential legislative priorities, why should the American people entrust their party with even more power this November?
via Huffington Post.
Related Reading:
- Letter Endorsing the People’s Budget.
- To improve Social Security’s solvency and boost benefits, the CPC budget
supports gradually raising the cap on payroll taxes. To improve
benefits, the People’s Budget would protect Social Security benefits
from inflation by using a fully-developed Consumer Price Index for the
Elderly (CPI-E) to set cost-of-living adjustments, and would provide a
Social Security caregivers credit to individuals who leave the workforce
to care for loved ones.
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Task Force on Seniors have led the charge against this proposal:
“10,000 people a day turn 65. We should be investing and expanding Medicare not stealing from it. People have paid into this program and expect it to be there…not to use that to fund anytime we need money to pay for another program…Medicare is not the ATM for everything Congress wants to pay for. Cutting this social insurance program isn’t the direction we should be going in. Medicare should not be the pay-for for trade deal. The best way to help workers is to stop trade deals that take their jobs…not cut Medicare to fund fixes.” Rep. Jan Shakowsky (D-IL)
Updated (2:40pm ET):
TAA failed in the House.
Activists at the U.S. Capitol protesting proposed cuts in Social Security benefits known as the “chained CPI.” The proposal would reduce the cost-of-living adjustment seniors receive. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus spoke in opposition to the proposal, which surfaces as Washington elected officials look for a “grand bargain” that could end the government shutdown standoff.
Some of our National Committee volunteers with their yellow shirts on!
More National Committee volunteers delivering #Medicare Anniversary materials. #p2 (at Cannon House Office Building)
National Committee volunteer, Bruce Smith sharing a personal story about how #Medicare helped his family. #p2
Today, National Committee volunteers delivered thousands of petitions to Members of Congress asking them to protect Social Security and Medicare.
To sign the petition, please visit the link below:
http://www.thetruthnow.org/Petition
You, our National Committee volunteers and supporters, make the difference each and every day! Our members rally at Social Security & Medicare events, testify before Congress, and have delivered literally millions of petitions to Congress. Here’s a short video celebrating all our NCPSSM activists.
Chances are, you’ve also taken action to help preserve these programs, so we thank you!
National Committee volunteers drop off petitions to Representative Turner’s Office asking to protect Social Security and Medicare.
This year’s 1.3% #SocialSecurity cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is not enough to meet seniors’ rising living costs. Older Americans need a fairer inflation formula now! https://www.ncpssm.org/campaigns/boost-social-security-now/