The 2026 annual report of the Social Security trustees released today shows a worsening outlook for the program’s finances, driven in part by Trump Administration's policies. More from @kathleenromig.bsky.social: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
SSA staff and administrative law judges cut the time to issue a disability appeal to a 25-year best by the end of the Biden administration.
But now that Trump and his part-time Commissioner have cut staffing to a 63-year low, the time to issue a decision is climbing back up again.
Restore the Trump cuts to Social Security.
It’s not his money at Social Security, it’s ours.
Stop fudging the numbers and restore the deep staffing cuts Donald Trump made to our Social Security program.
SSA employees drove the 1-800 # wait times down from an average of 45 minutes down to 12.5 minutes in 2024 — before Trump and his part-time Commissioner cut staffing to a 63-year low.
A recorded message is not an answer.
Stop fudging the numbers and restore the devastating cuts to staffing.
Intentionally falsifying a federal record to declare living people as dead is a federal crime – Trump and DOGE tried to do that to 2.7 million people.
Donald Trump’s part-time Social Security Commissioner — who has a practiced history of fudging numbers — will appear before Congress today to claim that the agency he gutted has never worked better.
Millions of Americans know the truth, and Congress is hearing their voices.[
The Social Security baby boomer surplus is now forecasted to be depleted even earlier than before — in part because of Trump policies.
But this is a solvable problem if the wealthy would pay the same rate as all of us into Social Security.
Effectuating retirement benefit claims into pay status was driven to a five-year best before Trump cut its staffing to a 63-year low and installed a part-time Commissioner with history of fudging numbers.
Beginning in June 2024, the highly trained SSA staff began bringing down the deadly Initial Disability decision backlog.
But Trump and his part-time Commissioner have cut staffing to a 60-year low, and untrained workers are encouraged to deny appeals in 30 days to boost metrics.
The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to run out in 2032 due to income inequality and a cap on taxable earnings, but this can be avoided by removing the cap and taxing higher incomes.
The 2026 annual report of the Social Security trustees largely avoids accounting for the negative effects of last year’s Republican reconciliation law and the Trump Administration’s draconian immigrat...
