WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Budget Committee and co-founder of the Expand Social Security Caucus, delivered an opening statement earlier this week calling on Congress to pass his Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the future of Social Security. Whitehouse's statement comes as the program faces troubling solvency projections, unprecedented administrative and staffing disruptions, and the ransacking of recipients' personal data by former DOGE staff.
Last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new estimates projecting that without new revenue, Social Security's ...