{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3434", "Wasserman Schultz Spotlights Trump\u2019s Cuts to Social Security Disability Benefits", "2025-10-23", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "FL", "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "W000797", "wassermanschultz.house.gov", "wassermanschultz", "https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Plantation, FL. \u2013 Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) joined Social Security Disability recipients and advocates to sound the alarm about Trump\u2019s proposed cuts to Social Security and highlight what they mean for seniors, retirees, and people living with disabilities.\n\nWatch the full press conference here.\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s pro-billionaire agenda now includes targeting Social Security and his Administration recently announced plans to remove or sharply reduce age as a factor in disability determinations. President Trump\u2019s new restrictions would deny benefits to many people age 50 and older with severe, documented impairments. This means a 100% benefit cut for 400,000 low-income people. If successful, it would result in one of the largest cuts to Social Security disability benefits in history.\n\n\u201cThis betrayal is a step too far. He\u2019s abdicating one of the most sacred promises that our nation makes and abandoning the most vulnerable among us \u2013 all in service to billionaires,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz. \u201cIt\u2019s a backdoor cut to regular Social Security benefits. We know that Trump and Republicans don\u2019t care about protecting the vulnerable. They only care about consolidating power and giving more handouts to their billionaire friends.\u201d\n\nWasserman Schultz was joined by Osteogenesis Imperfecta patient Simone Rodriguez, Advocacy Network on Disabilities President and CEO Ire Diaz, and Florida Alliance for Retired Americans Advocate Ken Goodfriend.\n\nEarlier this week, Wasserman Schultz and Rep. John Larson led 165 House Democrats in a call for Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano to halt the plan.\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n####\n\nPlantation, FL. \u2013 Hoy, la representante estadounidense Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) se uni\u00f3 con los beneficiarios y defensores de los programas de discapacidad del Seguro Social para amenazar sobre los recortes propuestos por Trump al Seguro Social y resaltar lo que significan para las personas mayores, los jubilados y las personas que viven con discapacidades.\n\nLa agenda pro-multimillonaria del presidente Trump ahora incluye atacar al Seguro Social y su Administraci\u00f3n anunci\u00f3 recientemente planes para eliminar o reducir dr\u00e1sticamente la edad como factor en las determinaciones de discapacidad. Las nuevas restricciones del presidente Trump negar\u00edan beneficios a muchas personas de 50 a\u00f1os o m\u00e1s con discapacidades graves y documentadas. Esto significa un recorte del 100% de los beneficios para 400.000 personas de bajos ingresos. Si tiene \u00e9xito, resultar\u00eda en uno de los recortes m\u00e1s grandes a los beneficios por discapacidad del Seguro Social en la historia.\n\n\u201cTrump est\u00e1 aprovechando el cierre del gobierno para atacar la integridad del Seguro Social. Los republicanos est\u00e1n recortando las prestaciones del Seguro Social para los estadounidenses mayores con discapacidad que ya est\u00e1n pasando apuros debido a la crisis del seguro m\u00e9dico republicano,\u201d dijo Wasserman Schultz. \u201cEl plan republicano implicar\u00eda un recorte del cien por cien en las prestaciones sociales para Cuatrocientos mil estadounidenses mayores de bajos ingresos con discapacidad. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 Trump puede permitirse rescatar a Argentina y pagarse doscientos cincuenta millones de d\u00f3lares con fondos p\u00fablicos, pero no puede permitirse ayudar a las familias con dificultades?\u201d\n\nWasserman Schultz estuvo acompa\u00f1ado por Simone Rodr\u00edguez, paciente de Osteog\u00e9nesis Imperfecta, Presidente y CEO de Advocacy Network on Disabilities Ire D\u00edaz, y Ken Goodfriend, defensor de la Alianza de Florida para Estadounidenses Jubilados (FLARA).\n\nA principios de esta semana, Wasserman Schultz y el representante John Larson lideraron a 165 dem\u00f3cratas de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes al pedir al comisionado de la Administraci\u00f3n del Seguro Social (SSA), Frank Bisignano, que detuviera el plan.\n\nLea la carta completa aqui.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3434"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9834528900682926, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}