On the recordSeptember 13, 2018
I am here to speak about the need to protect Social Security. Last year, the Republicans passed an expensive tax scam that gave 83 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent. This and the new tax scam 2.0 will add trillions to our deficit. Now they are trying to use this massive deficit that they created to justify cutting and dismantling Social Security, all while a retirement security crisis is looming to wreak havoc on those who are going to retire over the next decade. One in three Americans have less than $5,000--one in three have less than $5,000--saved. Fewer have pensions. For so many families who have worked hard, played by the rules, Social Security is all they will have. And Republicans, they want to take it away. Mr. Speaker, let's build up Social Security, not dismantle it. ____________________
