Protect Social Security

Hi, I'm writing as a constituent about Social Security, which Trump is trying to gut. This can't happen! In a flurry of executive orders that Trump signed on Saturday, he announced a deferral to payments into Social Security. Even though Trump’s order only cuts funding for Social Security, Trump has also vowed to make permanent cuts to the payroll tax, which would defund Medicare as well. Trump’s appalling power grab benefits the wealthiest Americans the most, and doesn’t help many of the people who have been hit hardest by the pandemic: the unemployed. Trump is pretending to help working people while actually "stealing from their retirement to make up for the administration’s failure to contain the virus," as Rep. John B. Larson said. The payroll tax funds Social Security and Medicare, and Trump’s planned cuts to it would undermine these essential programs. While the executive order only enacts a temporary deferral to payments into Social Security, Trump said after signing it that he wants to deliver a huge blow to that program and Medicare as well by permanently ending the payroll tax. Trump’s intentions are clear: he wants to destroy Social Security and Medicare unless we stop him. I urge you to reverse Donald Trump's payroll tax deferrals, prevent him from making any other cuts to the payroll tax, and ensure that Social Security and Medicare are fully funded and expanded to meet the needs of everyone in America. Thanks.