Social Security, the bedrock of our nation’s retirement system, is projected to become insolvent in just six years, with benefit cuts of 22% if Congress doesn’t act. Social Security is barreling toward insolvency due to the fundamental imbalance between its incoming revenues and outgoing benefits. As our population ages and benefits cost…
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AARP demands Congress fix Social Security's six-year insolvency clock, then fights the fix.
“Look, nobody's saying the program isn't real — we're saying the trust fund math is real, and folks who actually want it to survive support fixing it before the clock runs out, which is a separate issue from AARP's fundraising, don't conflate them. And the citizenship database, that's not a dragnet, that's just verifying who's on the rolls — did I say dragnet? Forget I said that.”
The receipts
· Top OpenAI Executive Labels Social Security a ‘Fraud’ That Must be Dismantled from the morgue, 26 Aug 2026
· Congress is sleepwalking into a Social Security crisis from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
· DOJ asks Supreme Court to unblock voter database linking Social Security and citizenship records from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
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