Axios: Top Senate Democrats plan to unveil legislation that would provide an emergency $200 monthly increase in Social Security benefits through the end of the year to account for potential tariff related cost increases https://www.axios.com/2025/04/10/chuck-schumer-elizabeth-warren-senate-democrats-social-security
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in the context of tariffing the world 10%, and top 3 trade partners between 30% and 150%, what kind of rate implications from increasing social security spending by less than 0.0001% of gdp do you anticipate?
#MAGA
Seriously, unless we plan on breaking out the guillotines, what exactly do you want?
At least this is something to help people
Just saying in this particular instance, they're trying to do something to help people, that's still their fuckin jobs
Everyone involved should be embarrassed and ashamed.
Also, student loans debt isn't technically direct payments, but 5 million people got a collective $190B forgiven.
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-sending-more-direct-payments-americans-worrying-republicans-1865980
If you're not surviving soley on social security while democrats have pulled 378,000 stunts to make them look good while actually, literally, not helping us then. Sit. Down.
But they KNOW when they implement this kind of thing that it's free because these ppl (ME) will have benefit deductions elsewwhere. Yeah it's good to call them out on this.
Dems give voters money.
Voters give Trump credit and don't mind the bad policies.
After Dems win back control of the government they fix Trump's bad policies and stop handing out money.
Voters get mad at Dems and vote for Republicans.
I want the cause of the suffering to end.
Letting Trump send out checks with his name on it not only does nothing to fix the problem, it makes it worse by giving people the impression that there isn't a problem in the first place and would make Trump popular.
Dems need energy and new ideas. He caved. We're screwed.
This is so easy.
Not that any of that matters now, or that anything works how it's supposed to.🤷♂️
1. make it bigger, 200 isn't enough
2. include language protecting social security data, agency jobs and hiring more staff for services
3. DON'T SELL IT AS A SOLUTION TO TARIFFS "oh wow the tariffs aren't that bad i guess
2. Provides relief only to people on SSI
3. Has a snowball's chance of hell of getting anywhere.
This is Senate Democrats' idea of "doing something."
Primary every last one of the useless motherfuckers.
This is why there needs to be a leadership change at the D party.
They need to hammer the message that Trump tariff will make people jobless, homeless, hungry, and sick.
Instead, they’re doing their best to cushion the blow of a bad policy.
Would you even need to give any money away if the tariffs went away?
No. So that’s what they need to do.
Stop helping Trump! Voters are going to think he did it idiots
Just shut it all down.
NO
Let the GOP own this stupidity.
Don't waste time and effort on this.
It won't pass (or Trump will get credit).
No new bills!! Stop all bills! Disrupt the Republican congress.
NOTHING until GOP acts lawfully.
Stop them from hurting us.
#JesusFuckingChrist.
Where the hell do you shop?
young families hoping to pay the rent or buy a house, or young adults trying to get by paying/rent or pay for food -
every day Americans hit with 20+ increase in costs? (shadow tariff tax)
yes seniors too, but just seniors?
You allow voters to feel the pain of the Trump gop policies. You denounce them every single day in front of cameras. You tie a Trump and the feckless gop to every bit of chaos and fear and pain.
This has to be the stupidest take ever
I'm sorry youve gone this far in your life without anyone telling you that.
How’d that work out?
When do we punish the wealthy for hoarding wealth?
1) Dems might as well promise the moon, literally: they CAN'T get this legislation passed by a GOP-controlled Congress. Even if they win control in 2026, Trump would veto it.
2) Biden made 99 campaign promises in 2020. He honored 33 of them, watered down 32, and broke 34.