This year’s cost-of-living boost in benefits is an important reminder that Social Security is the bedrock of financial security for America’s seniors in challenging times. Yet extreme MAGA Republicans are doubling down on slashing Social Security & Medicare.
The increase in Social Security benefits, together with the historic action that Democrats have delivered to lower seniors’ prescription drug costs with the Inflation Reduction Act, shows the vital role Medicare and Social Security provide to protect seniors from rising costs.
Yet with Social Security & Medicare as essential as ever, extreme MAGA Republicans are openly plotting new schemes to slash seniors’ benefits & raise their costs – including by threatening to cause an economic catastrophe by holding the debt limit hostage for their toxic agenda.
Republicans are pledging to repeal the lower drug costs and 158 House Republicans have already endorsed an extreme MAGA plan to privatize Social Security, raise the retirement age and end Medicare as we know it.
While extreme MAGA politicians play politics with people’s lives, Democrats’ commitment to Social Security, to Medicare and to our seniors is unshakable – because we always put #PeopleOverPolitics. speaker.gov/newsroom/101322
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In April, @POTUS took a powerful step to make health care more affordable and accessible by ending the “family glitch” in the Affordable Care Act — strengthening the law so that it functions as Congress intended.
Today, the Treasury Department finalizes the fix so that, when Open Enrollment begins on November 1st, nearly a million more Americans will see lower premiums or gain affordable coverage.
This means that, under President Biden and a Democratic Congress, 14 million Americans have gained the dignity and security of lower health care costs. This is the latest step in Democrats’ relentless fight to lower health costs.
Today’s jobs numbers offer further proof that America remains on a path of strong, sustainable job growth. Under @POTUS Biden and a Democratic Congress, our nation has seen the strongest jobs recovery in modern times.
This progress was powered by Democrats’ economic agenda: from our Rescue Plan to our Infrastructure Law to our CHIPS and Science Act.
But Republicans overwhelmingly opposed these laws — and the historic job creation they have sparked.
At the same time, while Democrats are lowering kitchen table costs for families with our #InflationReductionAct, @HouseGOP has put forth an extreme MAGA agenda that would raise prescription drug prices, slash Social Security and Medicare, and diminish our economy.
This is a day of hope and healing, as @POTUS takes historic steps to reform America’s approach to marijuana. These transformative actions are the latest manifestation of Democrats’ unyielding commitment to justice, especially for those unfairly harmed by cannabis criminalization.
Failed federal drug policies — which have specifically targeted communities of color — have torn apart too many families. By pardoning those arrested for simple marijuana possession, and encouraging governors to follow suit, the President is advancing racial and economic justice.
.@HouseDemocrats applaud these bold actions, which build on the progress we forged in passing our Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act.
This legislation decriminalizes marijuana at the federal level and empowers all to participate in the cannabis industry.
Today’s appellate court ruling offers a measure of temporary relief for our Dreamers, who are a pride and constant reinvigoration of our nation.
.@POTUS is to be commended for his proactive action in August to strengthen the DACA initiative against extreme MAGA Republican attacks. More must be done to offer the permanent stability and security that millions of Dreamers and their families deserves.
That’s why @HouseDemocrats have twice passed the Dream and Promise Act: to finally offer Dreamers a permanent pathway to citizenship, while fixing our broken immigration system through comprehensive reform.
With this year’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, @POTUS is mobilizing renewed, nationwide action against the hunger crisis – including more than $8 billion in private- and public-sector commitments.
The injustice of children going to bed hungry is a moral outrage – one that motivated myself and many in our House Democratic Caucus to seek public office.
President Kennedy once told the World Food Congress: ‘We have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We need only the will.’
On behalf of the United States Congress, shana tovah u’metukah!
As families across the country prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Congress joins Americans in wishing our Jewish communities a healthy, sweet new year.
May these Days of Awe provide time to rejoice alongside loved ones: reflecting on the challenges of the past year, celebrating its blessings and preparing for all that that lies ahead in 5783.
For millions, this year has brought the joy of long-delayed family gatherings and the hope of many more to come. But as families around the globe continue to face unthinkable hardship, our responsibility to help repair the world remains as urgent as ever.