For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin
Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. 6 00 a. M. In gaza as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israels war on hamas. On americas late news, fox news at night. President biden is scheduled to touched down in israel in 4 46. His primary goal is to stop this war from spreading. The president is flying into a region where diplomacy is giving way to hatred. Greatly exacerbated by a strike on a hospital in gaza that hamas now claims killed around 500 people. Israel says it has proof the Rocket Strike came from terrorists in gaza. The leader of hamas blames israel as well as the United States. And has below is calling for a day of rage where thousands of people protesting near the u. S. Embassy in lebanon. There are also protests in turkey, the west bank and jordan where a summit between President Biden and palestinian and egyptian leaders is now canceled. The Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent is live at the israel the lebanon border with what he is seeing on the ground. Greg . Roll al
Cspan, powered by cable. Guest i work for the Cato Institute, which is a nonpartisan libertarianleaning think tank in washington, d. C. We advise congress and the administration on public policy, and the Cato Institute has a long history with Social Security, having been known, especially in the early 2000s, for its plan to support private accounts when the Bush Administration was talking about it and were building a new model at this time, so youll be seeing more policy reforms coming out of cato in the next few months. Guest Social Security works is the name of our organization. I began working on Social Security in the 1970s, and i realized in 2010 there was a lot of misinformation about it. There was a lot of, supposed to provide a sense of security, and people were insecure because they were concerned the program would disappear. So i formed this organization, Social Security works, to educate everyone that Social Security is strong and will be there for everyone. Host the Social
Liz thank you, larry. Trump sounding more optimistic than policies than ever before and its so forward looking and interesting to see how its playing out given the jobs reports and thank you, larry. Have a good weekend. This story, former President Trump did attend he just left a new york courtroom for that new york trial. Weve got developments coming up and that stuff crew cratering and get to from house judiciary and congressman chip roy. These protegeses, congressman, they dont want to turn into another kent state where someone gets killed and shut down on growing economists and the photo of a man at stanford protest wear ago headband of hamas. Theres a hezbollah flag flown at princeton and chanting death to america at these schools. Its 2300 arrested and its growing. Its now in 26 states. How come they cant just stop this right now . Well, they certainly could if they wanted to. Theres places around the country where theyve done just that. We had honestly a senator at the president