FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 19th, 2023
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesc
31 Organizations Representing Seniors, Working Families, and Progressives Call For a Clean Debt Limit Increase
(Washington, DC) — Today, 31 organizations led by Social Security Works, Indivisible, and MoveOn released a letter to Congressional leadership calling for a clean debt limit increase. These groups represent tens of millions of seniors, union members, and progressives.
In the letter, the organizations write:
“At this year’s State of the Union, everyone stood up and clapped in agreement with President Joe Biden, signifying that they stand up for seniors and working people who rely on Social Security and Medicare. Only a clean debt limit bill is standing up for seniors and working families.
Certainly, cutting Social Security or Medicare as a condition for raising the debt ceiling, is not standing up for seniors. Nor is cutting Medicaid, SNAP, housing assistance, energy assistance, or any of the other myriad domestic programs that our families, retirees, and communities depend on to make ends meet. More fundamentally, risking an economic recession and threatening the financial security of every working family in this country would be a failure of Congress to fulfill its duty.
Congress raised the debt limit repeatedly without conditions during President Trump’s four years in office. It should take that same step now, without delay.”
The organizations that signed the letter are:
Social Security Works
Indivisible
MoveOn
AFL-CIO
Alliance for Retired Americans
Ameinu
American Federation of Government Employees
American Geriatrics Society
Americans for Tax Fairness
APWU Retirees Department
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
California Alliance for Retired Americans
Campaign for America’s Future
Demand Progress
Global Policy Solutions
Groundwork Collaborative
Health Care Awareness Month
Justice in Aging
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
National Employment Law Project
National Women’s Law Center
Our Revolution
P Street
People’s Action
Social Security Works California
Strengthen Social Security Coalition
Student Borrower Protection Center
The Gerontological Society of America
United We Dream Network
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Social Security Works is a non-profit organization working to improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations by fighting to expand Social Security, improve Medicare, and lower the outrageous prices of prescription drugs