Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I represent more than 180,000 people in western Pennsylvania who receive Social Security benefits. Those are earned benefits. My constituents receive more than $350 million of those monthly benefits. I join my colleagues in sounding the alarm on this administration's attacks on the bedrock national promise of Social Security, which Mr. Musk called a Ponzi scheme. We have already seen firings in the Social Security Administration, threatening to close field offices, a website crashing several times in March, a plan to end paper checks as an option, and DOGE accessing sensitive data systems. All of this puts people at risk, and the impact will be clear. It means longer waits and travel times to get the benefits people have earned, putting those benefits at risk. My office has gotten hundreds and hundreds of calls from constituents who are worried about their Social Security benefits. My Social Security telephone townhall had nearly 18,000 people. More than 2,000 folks responded to my survey about these problems. Why? People are worried about their earned benefits, Mr. Speaker, I will continue to stand strong against these attacks on Social Security. ____________________”