During his 2024 campaign, now-President Donald Trump insisted that he had no desire to cut Social Security or Medicare. But ...

As the Trump administration says it's continuing its effort to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government ...

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 ...

Specifically, opposition to Social Security privatization has been an important part of the AARP's advocacy. The AARP’s ...

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." ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saidthat so-called Trump Accounts would serve as “a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...