Trump's fellow Republicans have alluded to ways to cut social security. In March, the House GOP caucus released
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The caucus members groused about how Social Security has expanded since it was originally signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, through “the addition of disability benefits, dependents and survivors benefits, and the incorporation of automatic cost-of-living adjustments.”
Predictably, they don’t mention who was responsible for these changes: Disability was added in 1956, under Dwight Eisenhower; cost-of-living adjustments were enacted in 1972, under Richard Nixon, and went into effect in 1975, under Gerald Ford. All three presidents were Republicans.
The committee called for “modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy,” raising the retirement age to 69 from the current standard of 67 for new retirees. That's a benefit cut, and one that would hit low-income and Black Americans harder than others.
Here's the bottom line: It would be folly to be complacent about what the current political majority might do to Social Security.
I meant 67 million Americans, but I am not able to edit the subject line anymore, ever. Sorry. Sue me, you MAGA fuckwits.