📢 Hands Off Our Benefits: People Power Rising
Social Security is under attack through deliberate cuts, closures, and privatization schemes that threaten millions, and People Power is pushing back!
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Friends, we are at an inflection point. The Social Security Administration—one of the most successful and trusted public institutions in U.S. history—is being deliberately weakened by the Trump administration’s Project 2025 agenda. The staffing cuts, office closures, and bureaucratic barriers now crippling the agency are not accidents or inefficiencies—they are part of a calculated effort to erode faith in government and dismantle the economic lifeline that millions of Americans depend on. Social Security is not just a retirement program; it is the cornerstone of dignity and stability for generations of working people who built this country and paid into the system with every paycheck.
Today, the consequences are devastating. Trump’s budget cuts have gutted the Social Security Administration’s workforce, shuttering field offices and leaving seniors, disabled Americans, and struggling families waiting for benefits they have earned. These attacks are compounded by harmful proposals to eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits, starve the trust fund of revenue, and accelerate its insolvency. Policies targeting workers further threaten the payroll base that helps sustain the program. And while the administration peddles false claims of “massive fraud” to justify these rollbacks, it offers no evidence—while quietly pushing privatization schemes like “baby accounts” that would turn a guaranteed public benefit into a risky Wall Street gamble.
Make no mistake: this is not incompetence—it’s intentional. The goal is to break the system so that privatization seems like the only option left. This assault on Social Security mirrors a broader pattern of austerity politics and corporate greed that seeks to transfer public wealth to private hands. Yet Social Security remains one of the few programs that has never failed the American people. As Congressman John B. Larson reminds us, the program has never missed a single payment—not during 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, or the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Its administrative costs are less than one percent, and it continues to lift millions out of poverty every year. In 2023 alone, 6.2 million children—about 9 percent of all U.S. kids—received Social Security benefits, lifting nearly one million out of poverty (Teen Vogue, 2025). Without it, almost four in ten older Americans would live below the poverty line (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 2025).
We have a moral duty to act. We must stop the closures of Social Security field offices, restore staffing levels to meet growing demand, modernize technology to ensure accessibility for all, and safeguard data against misuse and political interference. This is about more than numbers—it’s about honoring a promise born from the Great Depression, when FDR’s Social Security Act shielded Americans from forces beyond their control. We face a similar test now.
If we fail, millions will face unnecessary hardship, economic inequality will deepen, and trust in government will erode further. The precedent will be set that the safety net itself is negotiable. But if we advocate—together—we can ensure that Social Security not only survives but thrives. Expanding benefits, lifting the payroll tax cap for the wealthy, and protecting every worker’s earned right to retire with dignity will strengthen our economy from the bottom up.
At People Power United, we stand up and speak out because protecting Social Security is not just an economic choice—it is a moral imperative. Here in America, we are judged by how we treat the most vulnerable: the aged, the disabled, the orphaned, and the chronically ill. An attack on Social Security is an attack on the promise of liberty and justice for all—and we must rise to defend that promise, even if it means standing up and speaking out against the President of the United States. Please see below for today’s calls to action.
Today’s Calls to Action
Click here to Investigate Trump’s Efforts to Undermine Social Security
Click here to send a letter to your representative demanding they protect and expand Social Security now. The future of our democracy and the well-being of millions depend on it.
Click here to Tell Republicans: Hands Off Social Security
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