{"id":168768,"date":"2025-09-20T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168768\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:16:12","slug":"betrayal-progressives-pounce-as-trump-official-says-raising-retirement-age-being-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168768\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Betrayal’: Progressives Pounce as Trump Official Says Raising Retirement Age ‘Being Considered’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump-appointed Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano<\/a> on Friday drew immediate fire from many progressives after he said raising the retirement age for American workers was on the table.<\/p>\n

During an interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo asked Bisignano if he would “consider raising the retirement age” to shore up Social Security’s finances.<\/p>\n

“I think everything’s being considered,” he replied.<\/p>\n

He said that he would need Congress’ help to officially raise the retirement age and acknowledged, “That will take a while,” before adding, “But we have plenty of time.”<\/p>\n

Advocacy organization Social Security Works<\/a> immediately pounced on Bisignano’s statement, which it noted contradicted statements made by President Donald Trump<\/a> during the 2024 election campaign.<\/p>\n

“That’s a betrayal of Trump’s campaign promise to protect Social Security,” the organization said<\/a> in a social media post. “Raising the retirement age by a year translates to a 7% Social Security benefit cut. Forcing us to work longer, for smaller checks, and a shorter retirement is unconscionable!”<\/p>\n

In fact, as flagged<\/a> by former Biden White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates, Trump said in 2024 that “I will not cut one penny from Social Security or Medicaid and I will not raise the retirement age by one day.”<\/p>\n

Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich also rebuked<\/a> Bisignano for floating a retirement age increase, and he proposed an alternative way to improve Social Security’s fiscal health.<\/p>\n

“A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income,” he wrote. “A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.”<\/p>\n

Sen. Ed Markey<\/a> (D-Mass.) noted<\/a> that Bisignano’s call to potentially raise the retirement age came just months after Republicans passed massive tax cuts through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that disproportionately benefited the wealthiest Americans. <\/p>\n

“Republicans gave away trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy,” he said. “Now they are asking Americans to work longer. We won\u2019t stand for it.”<\/p>\n

The social media account for United Auto Workers delivered a pithy two-word response<\/a> to Bisignano: “Hell no!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump-appointed Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano on Friday drew immediate fire from many progressives after he said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,101427,38476,733,101428,27457],"class_list":{"0":"post-168768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ed-markey","10":"tag-frank-bisignano","11":"tag-social-security","12":"tag-social-security-works","13":"tag-united-auto-workers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}