Social Security claims rose due to fearmongering, budget cuts and administrative turmoil. Early claims lead to lower payments ...

As Democrats link Trump to Social Security’s struggles, he reiterates his promise to protect the agency’s benefits while also ...

The Social Security Trustees put out a report every year that shares details of Social Security's finances. In its most ...

A Social Security “war room,” threats to shut the agency, worker buyouts and a restraining order — here’s a timeline of what ...

The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from Social Security Administration systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans.

Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met in San Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador last month has become a ...

As Northwestern faculty grapple with the implications of a federal funding freeze, they are already living with the effects of a 10% non-personnel spending reduction enacted by the University in ...

ALBANY — Top New York Democrats have found ample room for criticism in ongoing chaos at the federal ... the whole Social Security system.” The agency’s annual spending is massive: according ...

While federal spending cuts directly affect a comparatively small group of people, the ripple effects could impact everything from shrinking social safety nets to an increase in consumer costs.

Lawler, 38, did not directly mention social security, medicare or medicaid ... Because we’re blocking off roughly 87, 90 percent of federal spending and saying, we can’t touch that.