We know Newsday dislikes just about everything Donald Trump does, but they were right in their criticism of the Trump administration sending out a message on the Social Security Administration masthead praising the administration for saving Social Security.
There would be nothing wrong with such a letter if it came from the Republican National Committee or Trump’s political agents, but it shocked us that it seemed to be an official message from the Social Security Administration.
We can’t remember a message being so blatantly political from such an agency.
Don’t get us wrong — we believe that, despite the flaws in the One Big Beautiful Bill, it’s far better than anything that would have been proposed by a Kamala Harris administration.
It continues much-needed tax cuts so that middle- and working-class Americans do not experience a two- to three-thousand-dollar tax hike this year. It funds the closing of the border. And it defunds a lot of the Woke political nonsense and crony capitalism that was involved in much of the Green New Deal.
But it’s also true that the bill increases spending. Sure, there are some individual line items cut, but it also includes more overall spending.
Democrats and their friends in the media have no standing to criticize this, because they would’ve spent even more, and criticize any attempt to cut spending or even slow the increase.
Most of these increase our result of entitlement growth.
A claim could be made that a stronger economy, which will likely result from the tax cuts and fewer regulations, will help contain the deficit over time and provide more money for needed programs such as Social Security. But that’s something where only time will tell.
It’s not appropriate for the bureaucrats in Social Security to be putting their political stamp on this type of letter.