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Rob Portman: “Social Security Disability is depleted in 2017. The other two trust funds... will be depleted, and therefore bankrupt…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2014
Social Security Disability is depleted in 2017. The other two trust funds... will be depleted, and therefore bankrupt, within the lifetime of most people retiring today.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman raises concerns about the depletion of Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

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