Executive Council Statement
Protecting Social Security Disability Benefits for America's Workers
… For opponents of Social Security, every day is a good day to cut Americans’ earned retirement and disability benefits, and no justification is too small, irrelevant or outlandish. In the latest attack on Social Security, congressional … Republicans have taken aim at the Disability Insurance Program—using an artificial funding crisis to hold disability benefits hostage to their demands for “reform,” a term Americans understand is code for cutting benefits. The very first day of this Congress, House Republicans deployed a procedural maneuver prohibiting Congress from …