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Byron Donalds held an in-person town hall and spent two hours lecturing the crowd, defending Elon Musk's DOGE, and arguing with the people who elected him.
On October 22, the Social Security Administration — run by Trump appointee Frank Bisignano — sent Americans an official email cheering the 'historic tax cut' in Trump's budget law and its new 'Trump Accounts.' It's at least the fourth time since July 2025 the agency has used its mailing list to promote Trump, and this one landed less than two weeks before Election Day.
Tom Tiffany says he won't cut Social Security. But he's floated raising the retirement age, belongs to the caucus whose budget would have raised it to 69, voted to squeeze the agency that pays benefits, and twice cosponsored an amendment AARP warned could force deep cuts.
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Brandon Herrera is telling voters he will protect Social Security.
States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.
In a leaked recording from a private Capitol Hill fundraiser, Ken Paxton said 'reasonable cuts to mandatory spending' are unavoidable. About three-quarters of that spending is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. His campaign didn't answer when asked which programs he'd cut.
In newly released audio from a 2025 campaign event, Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers said A.I. could verify who has 'earned' Social Security and claimed there's still a lot of fraud in disability benefits.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor of Ohio, was caught on tape saying he doesn't like the existence of Social Security and Medicaid payments.
A newly surfaced clip shows the Republican nominee for Ohio governor saying he doesn't 'like the existence' of Social Security and Medicaid payments. It fits a record: he agreed Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes and has pitched investing Social Security money in the stock market.
