“Their goal is to destroy our Social Security system,” one advocate for seniors said of Republican politicians. Social Security defenders have long argued that former Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office could spell disaster for seniors, and a nonpartisan government analysis released Wednesday bolsters their warnings. U.S. House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) […]
ANCHORAGE – A Canadian man was arrested in Los Angeles on July 8 after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging him with stealing over $420,000 of his mother’s Social Security benefits in a nearly 30-year complex fraud scheme. According to court documents, beginning in roughly 1995, Ellis Kingsep, aka Ellis King, […]
The Wisconsin Republican millionaire accused working-class Americans of “getting a lot more in return” from the key social program than rich people who pay disproportionately less into its coffers. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson came under fire Wednesday after the multimillionaire Wisconsin Republican asserted during a Senate hearing that Social Security—an economic lifeline for tens of […]
“Democrats were elected on the promise that they would defend Social Security against Republican attacks. Now is the moment of the truth.” A coalition of progressive advocacy groups on Monday launched a campaign urging every member of Congress to pledge to “never vote to cut Social Security or Medicare under any circumstances,” an effort that comes as […]
