A full Senate vote is expected sometime Thursday afternoon on Donald Trump’s pick for White House Budget Director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney. That means that Mulvaney’s nomination could come up for a vote just as a group of lawmakers and experts are speaking on the Hill in support of Social Security – and on the same day that millionaires stop paying their Social Security taxes.
The timing is interesting, since Mulvaney has been trying to cut Social Security for years.
via Huffington Post.
Related Reading:
- Scrapping the Cap: National Committee endorses Bernie’s new Social Security Bill; Marks the Day Millionaires Stop Paying payroll taxes.
- Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced landmark
legislation yesterday to keep Social Security solvent for the next six
decades — without cutting anyone’s benefits. The National Committee
endorses the bill, titled the Social Security Expansion Act, introduced
on the day when the average millionaire reaches the payroll tax income
cap of $127,000 per year.
