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Senate Budget Committee will examine the program's financial outlook at a Nov. 18 hearing titled "Social Security: The Reality." The committee is chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) serving as ranking member. The hearing will feature testimony from economist Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University's Mercatus Center, Jason Fichtner of the LIMRA Retirement Income Institute and labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards of the National Academy of Social Insurance. …
Advocacy groups, disability representatives and organizations involved in administering Social Security have also been lobbying Congress over the program's future. Lobbying disclosures covering the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of this year report the following spending:
- National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare: $1.02 million. Its filings identify budget resolutions and fiscal commissions that could lead to benefit cuts.
- National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives: $550,000.
- Allsup LLC: $140,000.
- National Council of Social Security Management Associations: $120,000.
- Association of Administrative Law Judges: $85,500.
- Social Security Works: $80,000. Its filings include support for S. 770, the Social Security Expansion Act.
The disclosures reflect lobbying on Social Security-related issues, although the reported totals may also include spending on other policy priorities. …
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