Thu
Aug 14 2025
08:55 am
Trump and other Republicans have said they will not cut Social Security benefits. Yet the program remains far from the sound economic system that FDR envisioned 90 years ago, due to changes made — and not made — under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
Social Security's 90th anniversary is marked by funding threats and privatization talk
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