Claims that Social Security benefits are now tax-free? FALSE.
Millions of seniors will find out the hard way this tax season.
What actually passed:
❌ Temporary tax deduction (expires 2028)
❌ Most seniors NOT eligible
❌ Weakens Social Security trust funds
Trump accounts are a backdoor plot to privatize Social Security and enrich Wall Street billionaires.
If he really cared about retirement security, he would expand Social Security instead of sabotaging it.
This is outrageous.
Americans often call Social Security at the most stressful times of their lives, such as when they've lost a loved one or become disabled.
They need fully trained experts (like the thousands DOGE forced out) on the other end of the line.
Weaponizing sensitive government data to try to overturn election results. What authoritarians do. Chilling.
Elon Musk's goons stole the American people's private Social Security data.
Now, we're beginning to learn why. And this is likely just the tip of the iceberg.
ICYMI over the holiday break, here are a few must-read articles:
1. WaPo on how the Social Security Administration struggled to serve the public in the Trump era (gift link)
wapo.st/49EIN9l
Great job, Bill Cassidy
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
From moderate governors-elect in Virginia and New Jersey to a democratic socialist mayor-elect in New York City, and everywhere in between, there was only one message: Fight Trumpism and make America affordable, says @alaw202.bsky.social of @SocialSecurityWorks.org.
Social Security benefits are going up by 2.8 percent next year.
But Medicare premiums are going up by 11.6 percent. And the cost of food is skyrocketing, too.
Trumpflation is stealing your hard earned benefits.
Americans EARN Social Security disability benefits with every paycheck, along with retirement and survivor benefits.
But now, the Trump administration is trying to cut those benefits.
They'll do anything to protect billionaires from paying their fair share.
Someone's never been up for 2+ hours in the middle of the night with a sick or teething baby 🙄
"Shrinking the staff...has made an already difficult situation worse.
Frontline workers, whose morale had already been low for years, say they are asked on a daily basis to do more with less."
Something to watch next week: the deadline for the Social Security Administration (along with the rest of gov) to stop issuing paper checks.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
This whole thing is such a bleak three-for-one: They get to stigmatize autistic people AND blame and shame women AND they get to specifically blame and shame women trying to mitigate their physical suffering in the only way they're allowed to during pregnancy!
My 15-month-old can't get a COVID vaccine. Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics says he should.
Kennedy is lying.
LOL so you won’t even make him swear to tell the truth in front of Congress so you don’t have to hold him accountable when he does???? Just throw the whole goddamned GOP party away. The whole thing. It’s fucking trash. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
@wyden.senate.gov to RFK Jr.: I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense.
@wyden.senate.gov: Robert Kennedy's tenure is so far marked by 3 calling cards:
❌ Chaos at federal health agencies
❌Corruption that benefits Robert Kennedy, Donald Trump, and their friends
❌Higher health costs for families
NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.
Hope you feel better soon, Peter!
Social Security turns 90 today. The cornerstone of FDR's New Deal keeps millions out of poverty every year. How is the Trump regime celebrating? By shrinking the SSA workforce, crashing its website, increasing wait times, and replacing humans with AI chatbots.
Post from Cassidy on Twitter that says It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy Again and Make America Great Again. This works against both of President Trump's goals. forbes.com/sites/siladity...
Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) has a case of the sads about a well-known anti-vaxxer, science denier, and fraud whom Bill Cassidy voted to confirm as HHS Secretary.
It’s not “unfortunate”, Bill Cassidy, it’s catastrophic, and it’s on you.
Cassidy can’t even bring himself to say Kennedy’s name.
Their source is a report from the Strategic Organizing Center, which is an org that partners with unions to fight corporate power.
BREAKING: The Trump administration has pushed out 20% of the staff at Social Security offices.
Often the most experienced, highly skilled staffers.
Seniors, people with disabilities, and families are paying the price.
"But if something that used to be a normal childhood activity is now seen as so dangerous that parents who let their sons walk in the neighborhood are considered felons, the problem is not just with how we enforce our laws but also with how we allow cars to define how we live."
The latest "government efficiency" from the Trump administration:
"Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case."
Of note: The Union for Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S.
The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
