Donations spotlight: Social Security Works is Fighting to Protect and Expand Our Social Security Earned Benefits

Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This September, Social Security Works is among three amazing groups that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO community will help Social Security Works in its campaign to fight every day to expand our Social Security system.

 Read this important blog post about Social Security Works, then visit CREDODonations.com and cast your vote to help send funding to the group to assist its effort—and the efforts of our other outstanding September grantees.

Social Security Works advocates on behalf of the 67 million Americans who rely on their earned Social Security benefits, and the millions more Americans who will rely on these earned benefits in the future. While some politicians including the Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-LA), and the eighty percent of House Republicans who are members of the Republican Study Committee, have released plans to cut, privatize, and destroy Social Security, Social Security Works is fighting back.

Social Security is a promise between generations that brings people of all backgrounds together. Not surprisingly, Social Security is wildly popular among Americans of all political persuasions.

Politicians who want to cut Social Security realize that their quest to defund and dismantle Social Security will never win the support of the American people. This is why Republicans want to force Democrats to go behind closed doors and cut benefits together, so that voters won’t know which party to blame.

The Biden-Harris administration has accurately called these commissions “death panels” for Social Security and Medicare. This is a huge change from a decade ago, when far more Democrats were open to such a commission.

When Social Security Works was founded, the elite conventional wisdom was dominated by talk of cutting Social Security, with absolutely no room for imagining benefits could be expanded. Now, nearly all Democrats are united in support of expanding benefits and even many Republicans are running away (at least rhetorically) from their support for cuts.

That’s how much Social Security Works has changed the conversation over the past decade, and we are not going back.

There are two paths forward when it comes to Social Security.

One is to expand and strengthen Social Security and require that multimillionaires and billionaires finally pay their fair share.

The other path for the future of Social Security, in stark contrast, is the vision of Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress. Trump and his allies support cutting Social Security and ultimately ending the program as we know it.

These plans to cut Social Security by $1.5 trillion over just the next decade and trillions more after that (including raising the retirement age), would be a nightmare scenario for Social Security and the millions of Americans and their families – indeed, virtually all Americans – who rely or someday will rely on their earned Social Security benefits.

Social Security Works will continue highlighting the monumental stakes of this election for Social Security, and the millions of Americans and their families who rely on their earned benefits, and we will continue making sure that these dual visions for the future of Social Security are crystal clear to every single voter.

With the disappearance of traditional private-sector retirement plans, our nation is facing a retirement income crisis. Too many Americans fear that they must work until they die because they will not be able to retire without a drastic decline in their standard of living. The solution is to expand Social Security.

We will fight to make sure that Social Security and Medicare are expanded, and we won’t let the people trying to cut the earned benefits of the American people hide behind mealy-mouthed weasel words. Social Security Works will continue to make sure the American people are fully informed about all of the proposals for Social Security’s future, and who is fighting to protect and expand the program.