On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act -- a monumental legislative achievement that protects our seniors, uplifts our citizens, and sustains the livelihoods of hardworking Americans who devoted their professions to bettering our country. On the 90th anniversary of the establishment of this historic program, I recommit to always defending Social Security, rewarding the men and women who make our country prosperous, and taking care of our own workers, families, seniors, and citizens first.
To this day, Social Security is rooted in a simple promise: those who gave their careers to building our Nation will always have the support, stability, and relief they deserve. Thanks to my Administration's efforts, Social Security now stands stronger and more resilient than ever before. Following the passage of the historic One Big Beautiful Bill last month, the vast majority of seniors who receive Social Security will pay zero tax on their Social Security benefits -- the largest tax break for seniors in the history of our country.
To further strengthen Social Security, my Administration is aggressively rooting out all fraud, waste, and abuse that rob our Federal programs of resources -- including stopping payments to the deceased and eliminating benefits for those who do not legally qualify. These measures will save American taxpayers billions of dollars every year and ensure that future generations receive the benefits they spent their lives paying into. At the same time, I am making the Social Security Administration more efficient, more responsive, and more effective than ever before -- reducing wait times and delivering the payments the American people worked hard to earn. I am also proudly restoring strong border security policies to ensure that Medicare and Social Security are preserved for the citizens who paid into them -- not abused by illegal aliens who have no right to be here.
On this 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, we recognize the countless contributions of every American senior who has invested their time, talent, and resources into our Nation's future. On this momentous milestone, we recommit to strengthening our retirement system, protecting programs like Social Security and Medicare against fraud and abuse, and ensuring that every future generation of American citizens has the income security they need and earned.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim August 14, 2025, as the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Garbage in garbage out proclamation. Saying and doing are two different things.
ReplyDeleteHE proclaims the anniversary? Is he trying to take over time now too? Pretty sure the CALENDAR proclaims the anniversary. I'd rather read 10,000 calendars a day, over and over than read his 🐎💩.
ReplyDeleteNot a word of that is remotely true except the calendar
ReplyDeleteEvery problem Social Security ever faced have simply disappeared in 100 days .... jeez I am relieved 😌 Let's for once face reality .. but no we are living in a lalaland of everything is Big and Beautiful ...
ReplyDeleteChock full o’lies…
ReplyDeleteThis is rich coming from the guy who, along with his minions, literally shutdown the 63 year old history program at SSA. The history archive and museum have been dark since March and the positions for the staff of two were eliminated. Read that again...the guy who celebrated the 90th anniversary with a "proclamation" and talked about the program's great history, shut down the agency's history program. President Roosevelt is rolling over in his grave!
ReplyDeleteCharles, quick! Put up something critical from one of the good news outlets. This doesn’t read like a secret government conspiracy to sabotage SSA.
ReplyDeleteCooking numbers is the strength of this administration.
ReplyDeleteThe four years of Biden were very, very destructive—Social Security was going to be destroyed,” Trump claimed. “The average call wait time reached an all-time high of 42 minutes, field office wait times were at 32 minutes, and the disability claims backlog was the longest ever in recorded history. It was run just like the country was run, it was run really badly.”
But those numbers aren’t from the end of the Biden administration. While SSA struggled under the highest workloads in history and amid a 50-year staffing low, an infusion of money as part of the Inflation Reduction Act and a series of reforms undertaken under Commissioner Martin O’Malley, average call wait times on the agency’s 1-800 number fell to under 13 minutes by the end of 2024, the disability claims backlog hit a 30-year low, and agency productivity improved by more than 6% that year.
Under Bisignano's leadership, the agency has changed how it calculates average call wait times to exclude the time that customers who use the callback feature wait for that call back. Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, noted that 90% of callers elect to use the callback feature rather than wait on hold, but both sets often still wait hours before reaching a representative.
“They say that the stat is the ‘average speed to answer,’ but that includes the average speed to speak to a human being and the average speed to a self-service option. As soon as you’ve pressed ‘3’ for whatever service, you have stopped waiting for the purposes of [Bisignano’s] stat and none of the rest of it counts,” said Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.