📊 Director of Social Security and Disability Policy at @centeronbudget
🏛️ Proud former fed: SSA, CRS, OMB, SSAB
Kathleen Romig
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
Today is the feast day of Frances Perkins in the Episcopal church.
She is a founding mother of Social Security, unemployment insurance, workplace & fire safety standards & much more.
She's an inspiration to me both professionally & personally. 🧵
francesperkinscenter.org/2018/01/17/f...
Trish Greenhalgh
The Trump Admin planned to declare 2.7M living people — including U.S. citizens & lawful permanent residents — dead.
They described their goal as "making immigrants so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested."
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Social Security commish Frank Bisignano testifies at Ways & Means Wed 6/10.
I'm sure there will be lots of Qs about:
-The chaos at SSA during the Trump Admin
-Bisignano's sign-off on the $1.776B slush fund
-The release of the trustees report the day before
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The Social Security Trustees Report is expected next Tuesday, June 9.
Want to know more?
Join me, SSA chief actuary Karen Glenn, and experts from across the political spectrum at a National Academy of Social Insurance briefing on Thurs 6/11, 12:30-2.
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The Trump Admin pushed out over 8K Social Security Administration workers over 15 months, compromising service to seniors, bereaved families & people with disabilities.
Nearly half the lost staff assisted local office visitors and 800 number callers.
www.cbpp.org/blog/new-dat...
This largest-ever cut in SSA staffing has affected every state — with 42 states & DC seeing SSA staff losses greater than 10%, Jan 2025-Apr 2026, according to OPM data.
This short-staffing of critical functions has affected SSA’s ability to deliver across the country.
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New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements.
The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵
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Happy Frances Perkins feast day (Episcopal Church calendar, May 13)! Witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, later FDR’s Labor Secretary; she wrote the Social Security Act in her church’s rectory kitchen. She pushed to admit Jewish refugees. Known as FDR’s conscience and author of the New Deal. ⚓️
People interested in the New Deal and related issues are sometimes unaware of the contributions made by Frances Perkins. In turn, people who recognize Frances Perkins as a national figure of rigorous…
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A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.
Social Security is one of the nation’s most successful and enduring sources of economic security, providing retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to millions of Americans and their families. Y...
In just 15 months, the Trump Administration has pushed out more than 8,000 Social Security Administration (SSA) workers — causing SSA’s largest one-year staffing reduction on record.
The settlement, @donmoyn.bsky.social told me, provides “financial reward for those who attacked American democracy. The consequence of not punishing Trump for January 6th is that now he rewards his supporters.”
