Trump, Social Security and end taxation
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A Republican-backed House bill includes a range new tax breaks, including a $4,000 deduction for seniors. Here's what to know.
If Trump really wants to prevent massive cuts in benefits for the seniors who need Social Security most, he needs to push Congress to act now before it's too late. If he and his successors fail to act, cuts will go into effect automatically and indiscriminately. That's going to upset a lot of voters.
Millions of recipients could soon be entitled to the tax break, should the provision make its way into the final bill.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn't allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans' bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans.
A group of House Republicans is warning new Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano against making more staffing cuts or shutting local offices at an agency that is seeing increasing customer service wait times.
The Trump administration plans to garnish a larger portion of student-loan borrowers’ Social Security checks in debt-collection efforts associated with defaulted loans than the amount established by the Biden administration in some actions pursuing repayment.
A new poll found that fewer than one in 10 registered voters support cuts in a state that backed Trump by 30 points last year.
Former Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley’s Win Back Our Country PAC called on Democrats to “not let up” on protecting the entitlement program upfront on Monday amid concerns over potential cuts to the program.
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