“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordSeptember 10, 2024
Reforming Social Security's payroll tax cap and treating investment income like wages could close more than 100 percent of the long-term financing gap.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Whitehouse suggests reforms to the payroll tax cap to secure Social Security funding.

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