Washington, DC – Monday, President Joe Biden signed into law H.R. 82 The Social Security Fairness Act, legislation that repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has co-sponsored the legislation every year since 2003, praised the long over-due passage of the law. “I have been working on […]
“I think these should be on the table,” GOP Rep. Greg Lopez said of Social Security and Medicare. A House Republican said Tuesday that he believes there “will be some cuts” to Social Security and Medicare as he entered a conference room at the U.S. Capitol for the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus, a […]
“They’re going to put everything on the table,” one Republican lawmaker said of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Republican lawmakers on Thursday signaled a willingness to target Social Security and other mandatory programs after meeting with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire pair President-elect Donald Trump chose to lead a new commission tasked with slashing federal spending and […]
Sen. John Thune “has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security,” warned one defender of the nation’s most effective anti-poverty program. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota—a former corporate lobbyist and close ally of Sen. Mitch McConnell—as the leader of their conference for the upcoming term, […]