The Republican New Year’s Resolution: Destroy Medicare

Nancy Altman Founding Co-Director, Social Security Works New Year’s is a time for resolutions. Consistent with this tradition, powerful Republicans have made clear that they are resolving, in the New Year, to dismantle Medicare, ending it as we know it. Speaker of the...

In The Age Of The Trump Monster

Ernie Powell Organizer, Social Security Works It is too easy to say they have gone insane. In fact, it is more than that. Much of the modern Republican Party is a Monster, a Monster that does not care if people go without health care, a Monster that does not care if...

No One Voted To Destroy Social Security

Nancy Altman, Founding Co-Director, Social Security Works Not a single candidate in 2016 campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace Social Security or Medicare. Anyone who did would have been soundly defeated. Indeed, unlike the Republican opponents he beat, Donald...