Trump broke his promise to protect a lifeline for 71 million Americans

For Social Security it has been a miserable year. 

After President Donald Trump unleashed Elon Musk and DOGE connected the Social Security Administration, the agency lost much staff, in a shorter play of clip than ever earlier successful its 90-year history. Fortunately, nationalist outcry and pushback from legislature Democrats saved Social Security from a 50% cut to staffing and the closure of scores of tract offices as Trump and his medication had announced backmost successful March. So, somehow, those dedicated workers remaining astatine the Social Security Administration person inactive managed to support the bureau moving — without missing a azygous monthly payment payment. 

There are not galore nationalist oregon backstage insurers successful the satellite who tin assertion to ne'er person missed a monthly payment outgo successful 90 years. 

This is bully quality for 71 cardinal Americans — galore of whom beryllium connected their earned payment each period arsenic a lifeline. But we are not retired of the woods yet. The bureau has been gutted. Enormous harm has been done to lawsuit work and to the agency’s quality to process claims.

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President Donald Trump, joined by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, speaks to reporters successful the Oval Office of the White House connected May 30, 2025, successful Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Just arsenic galore are demanding that Trump’s heavy cuts to healthcare beryllium restored, truthful excessively indispensable Trump’s heavy cuts to Social Security beryllium restored, arsenic the 2 are inextricably linked. Sixty-four million Medicare recipients will spot a simplification successful their Social Security benefits successful 2026 owed to Trump’s Medicare terms hikes that volition chopped into their Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), making beingness much costly for seniors. This is the top erosion of the Social Security COLA successful astir a decade, and the archetypal clip that Medicare premiums exceeded $200 per month. 

With the Social Security Administration’s staffing present reduced to a 60-year debased and babe boomers swelling the fig of progressive beneficiaries to an all-time high, the bureau is struggling badly, and the American radical are paying the price. Wait times to get to a idiosyncratic successful a tract bureau oregon to speech to a idiosyncratic connected the 1-800 enactment person go longer and longer.  

As the Trump administration claims that things person ne'er been better, millions of Americans are having a precise antithetic experience. In fact, more radical contiguous present die waiting successful enactment for their archetypal disablement determination than immoderate clip since President Dwight Eisenhower signed the disablement information of the Act into instrumentality successful 1956. Even conscionable recently, Trump and DOGE risked 300 cardinal Americans’ idiosyncratic data from the Social Security Administration. They person robbed Americans of lawsuit work and bid of mind.

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Conditions person grown truthful atrocious – Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, has called for Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano’s resignation. It proves to beryllium a telling illustration of the heavy interest experts person for the harm done to the agency. 

None of this had to happen. It was made to happen. As a candidate, Trump vowed all done the run that helium would support Social Security. Instead, helium wrecked the program’s lawsuit service, took a chainsaw to its functions and maligned its estimation with mendacious claims of waste, fraud and abuse.

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In a clip of large governmental division, Social Security remains the astir powerfully supported programme successful America. In fact, 80% of Americans are acrophobic whether Social Security volition beryllium disposable erstwhile they discontinue and privation it to beryllium strengthened, made amended — not hacked to pieces, privatized oregon liquidated. 

This is simply a ideology moment. Social Security should beryllium a bipartisan issue. All lawmakers — Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike — request to travel unneurotic to present connected its committedness of a unafraid status aft a beingness of hard work.