Social Security, Trump
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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.
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.
Millions of recipients could soon be entitled to the tax break, should the provision make its way into the final bill.
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.
Trump reversed former President Joe Biden's overpayment and recovery rules by implementing a 50% clawback rate on a person's monthly benefit until the overpayment is recovered in full. The president nominated Frank Bisignano to become the new SSA commissioner.
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.
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Student-loan borrowers could see Social Security benefits cut to $750 as debt collection resumesMillions of Americans are waiting on edge to see if they could be slammed by new changes to the way Social Security benefits are capped for student-loan borrowers
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.
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