Congress must make a Social Security resolution in 2025 -- and Elon...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The latest figures say Social Security will run dry beginning in 2035, with Medicare following suit the next year.
55% : The rest of the Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, seems to view shoring up Social Security (and Medicare) as a resolution for some future New Year.
55% : Before the December expansion proposal, Social Security was already set to meet only 83% of its obligations after 2035: in effect, an across-the-board cut of 17% from then on.
52% : The scenario is similar for Medicare, which will only be able to pay about 89% of its hospital insurance obligations after 2036.
49% : Social Security and Medicare have some 10 years left before their trust funds are exhausted and they'll no longer provide full benefits.
49% : Progressives fear means testing because it puts the lie to the idea Social Security and Medicare are purely savings or insurance programs, rather than wealth transfers.
49% : Musk, Ramaswamy and their allies can reshape public opinion on Social Security and Medicare solvency right now.
48% : Yet those estimates, from May, are already out of date because the Senate decided to ring out 2024 by passing a proposal that actually makes Social Security less solvent and brings the breakdown a full year closer.
41% : What would seniors say if a candidate explicitly proposed slashing Medicare by 11%? If Congress can't get serious about entitlement reform, elections at the start of the next decade will be overwhelmed by the crisis, which will confront candidates with a choice of big cuts, higher taxes, or quickly -- not gradually -- raising the eligibility age or implementing means testing.
31% : Their Department of Government Efficiency is tasked with curbing wasteful discretionary spending, not with entitlement reform.
28% : Donald Trump has said many times he won't allow cuts to Social Security.

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