FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 11, 2022
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesc
Republican Control of Congress Would Put Social Security in Grave Danger
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, in response to a report from Bloomberg News that Republicans plan to use next year’s debt-limit deadline as a hostage to demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare:
“Republican politicians are dripping with animosity towards our Social Security and Medicare. Even with an election less than a month away, they can’t stop themselves from talking about their burning desire to cut and end these so-called ‘entitlements’.
They use the insider Washington term ‘entitlements’, a term with pejorative underpinnings, in hopes that voters don’t understand what they’re saying. But it’s clear what their intentions are: Reaching into the American people’s pockets and stealing their hard-earned benefits.
Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts, even though Social Security doesn’t add a single penny to the deficit. If Republicans take control of one or both chambers of Congress, our earned benefits are in grave danger.”
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