Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age2024 Republican Party Platform
The record
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President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security.
2024 Republican Platform, Chapter SixDidThe 2025 tax law triggered an automatic Medicare cut of up to $491 billion. Congress waived it in November 2025.
Under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, laws that add to deficits set off automatic cuts, and Medicare is among the programs hit. In August 2025 CBO estimated the resulting Medicare cuts would total $491 billion over 2027–2034. Congress cleared the PAYGO scorecard in the November 12, 2025 funding law (H.R. 5371), so the cut did not take effect. CBO notes the law will keep adding to deficits every year, so the same trigger will come up again unless Congress waives it again.
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Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
2024 Republican Platform, Promise 14DidBenefits and the retirement age are unchanged. The agency that pays them lost about 7,000 staff, the largest cut in its history.
In February 2025 the Social Security Administration announced it would cut about 7,000 jobs, roughly 12% of its workforce. It also said it would consolidate its ten regional offices into four. Benefit formulas and the full retirement age have not changed. Advocates and the employees’ union warned that the cuts would slow claims and field-office service.
Executive orders
3 orders since January 20, 2025 whose titles match this promise. They are matched automatically by keyword and refreshed daily from the Federal Register, so read them as leads, not verdicts.
- Apr 30, 2026EO 14403Promoting Retirement-Savings Access for American Workers by Establishing TrumpIRA.gov
- May 12, 2025EO 14297Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients
- Apr 15, 2025EO 14273Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
Laws passed
3 laws enacted by the 119th Congress whose titles match this promise, from Congress.gov. They are matched automatically by keyword, so read them as leads, not verdicts.
- Oct 15, 2026P.L. 119-124Retire through Ownership Act
- Oct 7, 2026P.L. 119-119Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act
- May 29, 2026P.L. 119-95A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.