Martin O'Malley: “the agency would serve 7 million more beneficiaries with 7,000 fewer full-time staff than in FY 2015.”

To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency.

The biggest threat to Social Security is not these falsehoods. The biggest threat to Social Security is that they are going to crater the agency by driving 10,000 people out of it.

I certainly can’t tell anybody who to vote for, but I can tell you that the proposals that are coming from Donald Trump would quickly deplete Social Security, and we wouldn’t be able to pass it on to our kids as our grandparents passed it…

It is not what we promised our families, and I am really glad that we have the opportunity today to talk about what is required to deliver this promise to our constituents.