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Dick Durbin: “The Social Security Trust Fund will be unable to make full…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Calls On Congress To Act To Save Social Security

Published | Video Starts at 02:02

The Social Security Board of Trustees releases a report that tells us about the status of Social Security finances. Their 2026 report, released yesterday, should send alarm bells through Congress. According to the Board of Trustees, The Social Security Trust Fund will be unable to make full scheduled payments in 2032. So the effort that I was involved in in 1983 paid off. We bought 50 years, but now what are we going to do? (02:02–02:09)

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Asserts that the Social Security Trust Fund will face a shortfall in 2032.

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