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On the recordJanuary 10, 2024
I thank Congressman Larson for his inspired and indefatigable leadership on this critical issue. As someone who represents nearly 100,000 Social Security beneficiaries in the Massachusetts 7th and as a co-chair for the Task Force on Aging and Families, I am so proud to be an original cosponsor of your Social Security 2100 Act. This is a deeply consequential issue that stands to impact individuals from every walk of life--women, children, people of color, veterans, and our seniors--who have the right, who have earned the right, to age in dignity. Too often they tell me that doing so is becoming more and more difficult. They share their anxieties of living on a fixed income. They are skeptical of the long-term stability of a system they have paid into, paycheck after paycheck, their entire working lives; people like Mrs. Palmer who lives in Boston and wrote my office saying that Social Security is a promise. I agree. It is not merely a government program. Social Security is a promise to workers, to our elders, to the disabled, a promise to all people who seek to age with dignity. We will keep fighting to keep that promise. ____________________
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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