[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PROTECTING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

  (Mr. DELUZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DELUZIO. Mr. Speaker, I represent more than 180,000 people in 
western Pennsylvania who receive Social Security benefits. Those are 
earned benefits. My constituents receive more than $350 million of 
those monthly benefits.
  I join my colleagues in sounding the alarm on this administration's 
attacks on the bedrock national promise of Social Security, which Mr. 
Musk called a Ponzi scheme. We have already seen firings in the Social 
Security Administration, threatening to close field offices, a website 
crashing several times in March, a plan to end paper checks as an 
option, and DOGE accessing sensitive data systems.
  All of this puts people at risk, and the impact will be clear. It 
means longer waits and travel times to get the benefits people have 
earned, putting those benefits at risk.
  My office has gotten hundreds and hundreds of calls from constituents 
who are worried about their Social Security benefits. My Social 
Security telephone townhall had nearly 18,000 people. More than 2,000 
folks responded to my survey about these problems. Why? People are 
worried about their earned benefits,
  Mr. Speaker, I will continue to stand strong against these attacks on 
Social Security.

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