Bucks Democrats To Protest Threat To Social Security

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA – Democrats in Bucks County are urging people “to send a message” to the Trump Administration to stop making cutbacks to Social Security staffing and locations, as well as changing the way people apply for and receive benefits.

A rally will be held at the U.S. Social Security Administration building on Saturday, March 29 from 12 to 2 p.m. The building is located at: 444 Lincoln Highway in Fairless Hills 19030.

Nancy Sherlock, former longtime president of Morrisville Borough Council, is organizing the event.

“Local Democratic clubs across the county, which are supported by Indivisible, are behind the
protest,” she said.

Indivisible is a nationwide non-profit coalition of local groups whose aim is to resist the Trump Administration agenda as well as advance progressive values.

Sherlock said that the future of continued Social Security benefits for Americans is now at a
continuing risk.

“The rally is important,” Sherlock stressed, “to send a message to those that may not be paying attention. All people,” she continued, “need to wake up to the actions of the current administration.”

According to information released by the White House, the Trump Administration "will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits," but will be going after waste and fraud in entitlement spending.

For example, the administration says the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates taxpayers lose as much as $521 billion annually to fraud and most of that is within entitlement programs.

"Over the past two decades, the federal government has made an estimated $2.7 trillion in improper payments - the majority of which come in the form of payments to deceased individuals or those who no longer are eligible for government programs," said the administration.