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Today, Max Richtman (President and CEO of the National Committee) spoke at an event asking Congress to fully fund the Social Security Administration.
Speakers included: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Bob Casey, Nancy Altman, and other advocates.
You can watch the full event by clicking here.
![Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
““Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky
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Earlier this week, Members of Congress and allies met to discuss Social Security and the GOP Congress’ manufactured crisis.
“Seniors, I stand with you all the way [on Social Security].”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky“We are in a crisis right now. A retirement crisis. Not a Social Security crisis.” - Rep. Jan Schakowsky
“Stop manufacturing a crisis with the Social Security disability trust fund.”
- Senator Bernie Sanders“This week anyone earning a million dollars a year will have paid 100% of their payroll taxes for 2015.”
- Max Richtman
The Senate Democratic caucus united behind Elizabeth Warren last month to support an amendment that would expand Social Security benefits. Everybody from Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist, to Joe Manchin, one of the caucus’s most conservative members, backed the measure during the vote-a-rama.
via National Journal.
Related Reading:
Support for Expanding Social Security Grows & Right-Wingers Panic.
At a recent rally on Capitol Hill, Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to advocates about the importance of preserving and protecting Social Security & Medicare.
Click here or the graphic above to see highlights from the event.
As boxes of petitions signed by 2 million Americans were hauled to the Capitol on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions gathered by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
Related Reading:
Americans Push Back as Threat to Social Security & Medicare Grows.
“America made a promise to Social Security beneficiaries. America must honor its promise and that means no cuts to the Social Security Administration. We must make sure that seniors, the disabled, and survivors of beneficiaries receive the benefits they are entitled to.”
- Senator Elizabeth Warren
Read more about the Fully Fund Social Security event by clicking here.
National Committee President Max Richtman joined advocates and elected representatives on Capitol Hill today to demand that Congress adequately fund the Social Security Administration (SSA). Richtman, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bob Casey (D-PA) railed against Republican plans to cut nearly $500 million from the Social Security Administration’s operating budget in the upcoming government funding bill.
The agency has been woefully underfunded since 2011 and Social Security claimants have been paying the price in the form of reduced service and long wait times. Social Security’s core operating budget shrank by 11 percent from 2010 to 2017 in inflation-adjusted terms. This occurred even as 10,000 baby boomers a day reach retirement age. Congress has the ability to solve this problem, but has not signaled a willingness to do so.
Read more about this event by clicking here.
Congress should be expanding Social Security benefits for seniors.
Thank you to Senator Bernie Sanders for this graphic!
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