Congressman Larson's Committees

This month marks the 90^th anniversary of  Social Security, and while defenders of the program celebrate its legacy, they raise new warnings of what they call an increasingly real threat in the Trump era: privatization.

While wholesale replacement of the government-run retirement and disability program with private accounts has long been considered politically radioactive, advocates say recent actions by the Trump administration show it could happen, if not directly, then “through the back door.”