‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’ | US social security
An e-mail sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) which affirms that the main bill of expenditure of Donald Trump eliminated taxes on services for most beneficiaries is misleading, criticisms said.
The reconciliation bill – which the president called “a large and beautiful bill” before signing it on Friday after the Republicans in Congress adopted it – includes provisions that will exceed people in their health insurance, reduce food aid for the poor, kill the development of clean energy and increase national debt by billions of dollars.
But the bill “also eliminates taxes on federal income on social security benefits for most beneficiaries, providing individuals and couples,” said the SSA previously apolitical in an email on Thursday.
Frank Bisignano, the agency’s commissioner, said in a statement that almost 90% of social security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income tax on their services.
“This is a historic step for American seniors,” said Bisignano. “By considerably reducing the tax burden of social benefits, this legislation reaffirms the promise of President Trump to protect social security and helps to guarantee that the elderly can benefit from the retirement they have obtained.”
However, the expenditure bill does not really eliminate federal taxes on social security due to the constraints of rules to adopt a bill in this way – through the reconciliation process, in order to avoid a democratic obstacle.
Instead, the legislation provides for a temporary tax deduction of up to $ 6,000 for people aged 65 and over, and $ 12,000 for the elderly married. These advantages will begin to eliminate those who have more than $ 75,000 income and married couples of more than $ 150,000 per year.
The previous SSA officials said that the Trump Administration of the Bill Administration was misleading. “People are like:” Is it real? ” Is it a scam? Because that’s not what they scored, “a former SSA’s main advisor told CNN during the Biden administration.
“It does not look like normal government communications, official communications. It looks like – you know – supporter.”
Jeff Nesbit, who was a senior SSA official under the Republican and Democrats presidents, published on X: “The agency has never published such a blatant political declaration. The fact that Trump and his minion performing the SSA did it is unacceptable. ”
The representative of New Jersey, Frank Pallone, the best democrat of the Chamber Energy and Trade Committee, wrote on X that “every word” of the SSA email on Thursday “is a lie”.
“This great ugly bill does not change this,” wrote Pallone. “It’s disturbing to see Trump diverting a public institution to push a blatant disinformation.”
