Sen. Whitehouse Remarks on Protecting Social Security in a Finance Committee Hearing
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2024
- March 20 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) questions Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O'Malley in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President’s FY 2025 Social Security Administration budget.
CAN DEPEND ON WHITEHOUSE AND BIDEN TO STAND FOR WHATS HONEST
It was the Middle Class that built this country.
Biden Administration is building back the American Middle Class.
For Senator Whitehouse, yes.
Thank you, Rep. Whitehouse! 🇺🇸
Senator.
Senator Whitehouse is a good, honest, kind man.
And easy on my 62 year old eyes😂😂❤
Thank you senator, you are doing great things for the people.
If only all politicians were great like Senator Whitehouse.
Vote great in again!!
@cindyolson5264
There’s quite a few
great Democratic
members that are
working in the best
interest of our veterans,
middle class and the
underprivileged, but
yes Whitehouse is one
of the great senators!
Give the people 100% of what they paid all these years....zero cuts to SSI period !!!
SSI is different from SS. SS is money “I” paid in while working & can only get it when I’m 62. SSI is money young ppl recieve if they are physically/mentally disabled. The Repubs have ALWAYS been after our SS. They have even borrowed from it (but never paid it back. I’ve heard) hope this helps. Don’t forget you pay into it every pay ck. It’s YOUR money.
@@shirleyandrews1152 I was referring to SS, my bad. 🙋♂️
Tell them to tax the rich again and put our money back into SSA that they took out and never replaced. We worked for that.
I was going to write the same thing.
Yes, unbelievable that they touched it.
We worked long and hard paying into the SSA and I will fight if it’s taken away!! These lawmakers should try living like we do trying to make ends meet! Congress members have free healthcare and a good salary for doing absolutely nothing for the American people!!
Also, corporations stopped funding workers retirement plans as rapidly as possible so SS save the business money
@@raeannuria5691"They" are the Republicans, because all they do is cut taxes for the rich, nothing else. Legislation zero, ideas zero, just culture war and circus on taxpayers' money.
Thank you once again, Senator Whitehouse!!!💪💙🇺🇸🌊😎🗽
Senator Whitehouse is one of our smart and determined leaders. We are so fortunate to have him and a few others who have risen to this occasion. Life steadily improves under Democrats.
Dearest Senator Whitehouse,
Social Security is my only income
on Tuesday, I will be 70.
Seventy years of Democracy that I
definitely do not want to lose for anyone.
You are constantly fighting for
Our Country, Our Constitution,
Our Democracy,Our Rule of Law,
Our Constitutional Rights.
I SO INTENSELY APPRECIATE YOU.
I watch every bit of your appearances.
You Are a White Knight for
Our Nation, Our People!!🦅🇺🇸💙
💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Just another reason why Whitehouse is the BEST!!!
I am 72. I am handicapped due to MS. I worked until I was 63. Without Obamacare I don’t think I would have lived to get Social Security, eventually be declared disabled and now on Medicare.
I would be up a creek without a paddle.
I recently changed my plan to Medicare Advantage program. I have never received such great care. I go to Oak Street Health. Their system of medical care is fantastic. I actually feel more confident about my health than I have in years.
Thank you Senator Whitehouse. Just the fact that we are important to you makes my day.
I am from St. Louis, MO.
Wishing you all the best sir.
God Bless you.☮️🇺🇸🗳️
💙Lucas Kunce💙 for MO. Senator! Kick Hawley to the curb❗
Senator Whitehouse is amazing. A true patriot. Thank you.
As a senior, I have been very worried that Social Security and Medicare will be cut, and as a fixed income person, I worry about having enough to live on.
Not only do I not want to worry about Medicare I want the base benefits to cover more medical issues and ALL prescribed drugs.
If Trump gets back in office we WILL see cuts to SS and Medicare. The Republicans already have it in their 2025 playbook. He’s called them entitlements! These things are NOT entitlements! I paid into both my entire working life, as did my employers. If not for these benefits, I would be unable to stay in my home.
You're not alone. There are millions there with you!!!!!
I’m with you. It’s scary.
Be sure to vote 💙 President Biden gave us a good raise and is planning to give us another. Republicans are trying to cut social security: that’s one of there main goals. 💙vote Blue 💙
Remember everyone Trumps tax cut for the middle class expires in 2025 yet the Rich was made permanent. Save Social Security
It boggles the mind that the right is so ignorant and doesn't get up in arms about their money being taken away. SMH
@@catbb1000 It’s just the excuse they use, but they say it’s too complicated to follow it all.
We have to fight as we’ve always done.
Fight to stop voter fraud and gerrymandering and buying the courts.
College students fought to register voters in the 60’s. This is our fight.
I have worked since 14 years old and by the time I’m old enough to retire I will have worked 52 years of my life.
Social security is only income I have left to live off of it…Hand should be off from Social Security and Medicare!!!
if you want that to happen, stop voting against your best interest (meaning stop voting replublicans!).
@@Q_from_Star_TrekGood point Q. If you vote republican kiss your future goodbye
@@Q_from_Star_TrekWhy would you think they do… “q”?
Thank you and your team for all you do for us. Especially these videos. 💙 🇺🇸
RAISE THE INCOME CAP, which is ANCIENT!! This could've been done a long time ago, BEFORE this became an issue!
Yes indeed : to have Social Security solid would be fabulous .. it very stressful & never disappears
Thank you Senator Whitehouse
If your income is $400K a year, you can afford to pay a fair tax rate. Those who are given/paid/remunerated tens of millions of dollars can certainly afford to pay a generous, healthy tax.
Boys and girls: That's $7,692.31 per WEEK, every week of 52 weeks.
Thank you being a woman in her 70s the fear of losing my Social Security he’s got awful not knowing if something happened. Would I be able to live thank you I hope that this is true and I hope that we can depend on this.
Thank you, Senator! Wishing you all the best of luck to encourage your colleagues to support this vital work.
Thank you.
Whitehouse for the Whitehouse!
These people have lost their minds keep you FN hand off social security period
We have allowed too many representatives to swap their support for the mass of constituents to protecting the wealthy few.
Thank you Senator Whitehouse.
THANK YOU.
Young people will be seniors when time comes, so this bill is critical for the nation.😊
Take on DeJoy. Please Mr. Whitehouse.
Please!!!!!! I’ve been signing proposals for YEARS to get rid of this creep. I thought there were new members on the board to vote him OUT. What happened?????
Having this social safety net guaranteed forever is a great thing. Keeping payment rates up to comfortable liveable levels will be an important goal. Protecting these funds from other miscellaneous political groups will continue to be a challenge. If Americans move toward caring for their demented seniors as has been done in other civilized countries, we must plan for an additional financial and professional burden in coming years. Thank you, Whitehouse, for your responsible leadership.
if you take out dementes, it would be a very nice statement..."If Americans move toward caring for their seniors as has been done in other civilized countries, we must plan for an additional financial and professional burden in coming years."
It's not guaranteed forever. It's not even guaranteed much beyond the end of the year. Social programs are under attack from more angles the ever before. If Trump is reelected, every cent we have put in. Will go into the pockets of Trump; large corporations, and the 1%. If any Republican wins it the Presidency the result will be much the same. And even if we see a blue tsunami come November. Project 2025 is waiting in the wings to take over no matter what.
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Thank you solid plan.
Great job❤
This is how civilised people interact with each other, I have said it before but Senator Whitehouse should be the model for members of the government and opposition to aspire to - a gentleman and a statesman politician.
I'm sorry, but the rich need to be taxed more. You are already giving them tones of tax breaks, not to mention they know how to find all the tax loopholes.
Thank you Senator Whitehouse and others who are protecting Social Security.
🗳🇺🇸 Democrat
Please Whitehouse for President. We are sooo tired of an America divided. We need you.
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, you are a credit to the people in your state, and to all of US.
Thank you for your Service.
I appreciate your leadership so much!
Now this is the way government should present themselves. Problem solving, solution driven.
It sure would have a calming and reassuring effect. Bless you! We do not have to live this way. Constantly in fear. Europe doesn’t. Scandinavia in particular doesn’t.
The best Senator! And the handsomest too!
We the people earned our Social Security when we worked for it
I get mad to hear how the rich get to hoard all their money, while regular folks struggle and pay a higher tax rate. What troubles me is how could these people be so greedy? They never think of the society that put them there. We need to change all this to favor the regular people of our nation. Thankfully we have Senator Whitehouse and others working for the people. Thank you, Senator
💙vote Blue to save our democracy from dictatorship💙
O'Malley - get to work!
You sir are my hero!
Thanks to the Senator for trying to save SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.
End the FICA cap!
Thank you Senator Whitehouse and Judge O’Malley …you are the only ones the American People can depend on to represent .
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse and President Biden, for caring about the middle class.
And Bernie 🇺🇸
I'm glad these great people in the White House are standing up for us we helped build this country we helped sustain this country it's our turn
Excellent!!!
how about giving people on social security enough to make ends meet?
Brilliant! ❤
Raising the social security age to 75 years old to qualify is just to pay for the Republican tax break for the rich.
JUSTICE DENIED AGAIN!
Lift the CAP !
Thank you
End the cruelty and draconian policy of increasing Medicare premiums for each year the elderly is unable to pay by 10 percent a year! It is the question of having a home and food versus paying for healthcare policy that benefits the hospital systems to exploit the system.
Thank you ❤
Senator Whitehouse you know your way around the political arena because you have wonderful views in policies and you would make a great candidate for President of the United States of America. Thank you for your services they're highly appreciated.
Whitehouse= Smart. Curious. Caring...and...
CUTIEPie!!!😮😅❤❤
Yes but the republican party doesn't want calming. AT ALL
🇺🇸Dear Senator Whitehouse. We are extremely frustrated about all this, but there's someone who has (had) a very viable solution. SEE: "George Carlin: Back in Town"....his ideas could work!
💙Vote Blue
Senator Whitehouse exhibits the qualities that should be used as a benchmark and why a vote needs to be cast.
Mr. Senator. Whitehouse, remind them Capitalists that they no longer have to fund retirement for their workers like they did before Social Security!!! Just remind those capitalists they save so much money by USA Social Security -- so increasing taxable income limits, for SS is a net financial win!!!
Solvent???? We've been fleeced. ITS SHAMEFUL THAT THIS MONEY HADN'T BEEN TRIPLED...... WE SHOULD BE GETTING INTEREST ON THAT MONEY. NO CONFIDENCE IN OUR GOVERNMENT.
Good show ...🇺🇸💙2028
Plz, eliminate taxes on SS income. We are taxing money that was a tax in the first place. Taxing the tax. Cmon
Look at Congress. Working constructively. Doing the work of the people. Serving their constituencies.
Senator Sheldon *Whitehouse! [ RHODE ISLAND - ''D'' ] .,. THANK YOU! .,.
Yes!!! 2075!
Tax the rich⚖️
Stay focused 🗳💙
IMO-glad to hear that O’Malley & Sen Whitehouse identified the gap as well as the issue on income that were sheltered by the highly paid earners that should have been part of the taxable base under FICA tax which resulted in the 1982 solvency calculation shortfall.
Find out from incoming callers…..are they making subsequent calls that might have been unnecessary had there simply been
follow-up to the first place inquiry?
Certified mail 150 days --received not the courtesy of a simple postcard acknowledgment.
I'm 72 retiree of 20yrs DoD living off of Social Security & my retirement $ goes to Medicare & 2nd insurances for medical, dental, vision/hearing. I would like to see Congress live off $1,300 a month paying rent, food etc. I am totally grateful I live with my daughter otherwise, I guess I would have to live in my car. That the life of a DoD being low on the totem pole.
You know, S. S. can easily Be Solvent throughout the future. Exactly by not having a top money cap when deductions are automatically stopped.
And pay them the benefits also?
Senator, regarding social security solvency, I’ve been saying for years that we need to significantly raise or even remove the cap on social security tax on income. Here’s how I look at it. If you own a home, you pay a specific % of real estate tax based on the value of your home. If tax was 1% and your home is worth 500,000 you would pay $5000. If your home is worth 5,000,000 you would pay 50,000. There is no ‘cap’ that says once you pay $5,000 you don’t have to pay more even if your home is worth 500 million $. It doesn’t matter if you have a family of 10 or you live alone. Why doesn’t social security tax work the same way? No, there’s a cap. So the lower and middle class bears the burden of taxes, while the rich pay nothing past the current cap. Makes no sense! And…Increasing the age of claiming benefits will be a disaster for our economy when todays youth turns 60 and start having health issues keeping them from working. Consider also that company’s don’t give pensions for these youngsters and 401k plans are a joke. So by the time our youngsters age, we will have a perfect storm setting up a generation for poverty.
The last two years I have gotten my taxes done they said my social security is NOT taxed!
I am not sure who you had do you taxes. But my Social Security is definitely taxed. What do you think the SSA-1099 statement they send out is for. It has the amount they paid you, plus the money they took out for any of your premiums for any benefits you have. That amount goes on my 1040. I assume you have a similar form. And in my case I also have to declare any funds I take out of my retirement account. I know I am really lucky to have a retirement account. Most people aren't so fortunate.
Depends on your AGI ( Adjusted Gross Income). If it's less than 25k, then it is not taxable.
I paid 1.2 million in inheritance taxes...I had paid social security w/o a flinch...at 70 I'm constantly stressed thinking people who run 4 president n take all loop holdz saying they r smarter 4 not paying into their country...my dues have been paid now the hidden tax for being stressed is to much 2 bare...!!!😮😮😮
Real income working class wages have been in great decline...doesn't that have impact on Social Security funding?
Can we get back the interest owed us when Reagan borrowed from soc sec to balance his budget. All including me needs to pay in to ssa, no escaping!!!
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Rooting system ain't on yalls system anymore supposeilly
Well we should not have to worry about it every year. It is responsible for very detrimental mental health consequences for me. Add the absolute horrible coverage and care my health has suffered so much that I am not sure I want to go on. 😢yes how dare you all left and right . I paid for 40 years!
I can’t tell you how many young folks have told me about the doubt they have about the chances they have to get SSI benefits. They feel bad about, real bad.
As a matter of fact there are those who hold older folk like myself at fault, creating a rift. Maybe this is is wanted….?
Please tell them that I have heard that Social Security benefits would never come my way when I retired for about the last 40 years! I collected my earned retirement benefits for 10 of those years. This is an earned benefits program, put in place after the terrible years of the depression in the early 1900’s. It is meant to supplement the elderly in retirement through a mandatory contribution program; that’s why it’s called an entitlement.
Don’t mess with it!!
Don’t buy the bunk!!
It’s not SSI‼️ it’s SS= “Social Security”. SSI is for younger ppl who can’t work ever or ever again. Like ppl with muscular dystrophy or an incapacitating injury.
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STOP "BORROWING" FROM SOCIAL SECURITY (Edit Deletion>)
It's Not Your War Piggy Bank!
How about simply STOP BORROWING FROM SOCIAL SECURITY? End your sentence with that.
The Senate and the House should not be allowed to use Social Security for anything other than to pay the people for what they and their employers have paid into with the reasonable expectation that the money will be there when they need it. The question of solvency is because congress has been helping themselves to the reserve. And never forget -- we pay for Medicare from our SSI and, if you elect to have an "advantage" plan, you pay for that as well.
Let me think deduction Medicare by IRS not going to my VA. So🎉cial security deduction for Medicare please send them to the VA instead of a med service I don't use. You have an (med) insurance called Medicare. I have been using VA service because 1999 is when I registered for VA. Even though blue cross blue shield takes a cut of my household of four, 20k a year. It is so nice to make sure I pay more than $75 dollars in taxes Trump years.
"Honerable"? martin o'mallley. No caps
Oops! I should say it has been paid into with no choice our whole lives and isn't a privilege but a debt owed back to us. It should be tax free and with interest!
Why does Sen Whitehouse not run for President?
Since Social Security is a self funding program, there is always some funds in trust. However, this program has been dipped into by other entities other than its regular funding. Perhaps this raiding can stop?? Medicare basically the same, though only partially self funded. Again, those who raid these 2 programs for other means than their intended beneficiaries, must stop. These programs wouldn't be in such critical status if greed went elsewhere.
Tax the rich on their entire income, just like every other person in the
U. S.. Easy fix.
Yup
Playing word games with social security is just wrong.
Why does social security have to be fully funded? The defense budget money is manufactured out of thin air every year. In fact billions of dollars worth of weapons that only kill and destroy are given to other nations without concern for the debt or human consequences.
Mr Whitehouse I commend you, if we can ever get ahead of the common crooks and system and GOP we can thank you for your leadership in this fight, these greedy bastards will ruin the country to feed their dumb excesses!
Here’s an idea for you… why doesn’t the Congress just return the 2.9 trillion dollars they borrowed from the Social Security Security Fund?!?!?! That would get it to solvency.
It is paying it back as needed. Meanwhile, it collects interest
Tax the rich 1% of the population whose wealth increased 400% in just the last two years, as the 99% actually do the work it takes. Tax the rich! Feed the poor.
It's more likely be more like Prince John than Robin Hood.
Vote BLUE ! Trump has promised to gut Social Security !