Have congressional Republicans forgotten the political pain they suffered when President George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security in 2005?

During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12, 2025, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) mercilessly grilled Treasury ...

The Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system that asks Americans to share their personal health ...

Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set off a firestorm this week when he said that the ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent comments about using Trump Accounts as a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...

Cue the inevitable cleanup. Both Bessent and White House press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt quickly said that these accounts would be a "supplement" to Social Security, not a replacement for it.

Bessent was more right the first time, only I would suggest tackling Social Security head on. If done right, private ...

President Donald Trump today formalized previously announced trade agreements with several countries, including Japan and the ...

AARP says Social Security has a critical mission for retirees. The AARP argued that Social Security should not be viewed as ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's new children's savings program "is a back door ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been criticized by Democrats after he said the new Trump newborn accounts are a "backdoor way to privatize Social Security." ...