Nancy Altman, president of Social Safety Works, mentioned the “proposed fee is Robin Hood in reverse — multi-millionaire Senators plotting to steal working folks’s earned Social Safety and Medicare advantages behind closed doorways.
“Anybody who helps this fee is supporting cuts to Social Safety and Medicare, and we’ll be certain the American folks comprehend it,” Altman opined.
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Accountable Federal Finances, applauded the introduction of the invoice, stating that “traditionally, commissions have performed pivotal roles in safeguarding Social Safety, bettering army effectivity, enhancing nationwide safety, innovating tax code enhancements, and guiding the nationwide discourse on fiscal coverage.”
“The fee’s major mission could be to supply a plan to enhance the nation’s fiscal trajectory with bipartisan backing,” in keeping with MacGuineas.
Dan Adcock, director of presidency relations and coverage on the Nationwide Committee to Protect Social Safety and Medicare, informed ThinkAdvisor beforehand that the Senate invoice consists of “‘fast-track’ language that may enable adjustments to Social Safety to be expedited via Congress outdoors of standard order, which we have now lengthy opposed.”