Biden Fires Social Security Administration Chief

“Every president should choose the personnel that will best carry out their vision for the country,” said Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., late Friday in a statement. “To fulfill President Biden’s bold vision for improving and expanding Social Security, he needs his people in charge.”

Wyden added that he’d “work closely with the president to confirm a new commissioner as swiftly as possible to lead this critical agency.”

Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, said Saturday morning in a statement that “Social Security beneficiaries stand the most to lose from President Biden’s partisan decision to remove” Saul.

“It is disappointing that the administration is injecting politics into the agency, given that Commissioner Saul was confirmed with bipartisan approval, worked closely with both parties in Congress, and provided smooth benefit and service delivery during the largest management challenge ever faced by the agency,” Brady and Crapo said.

The two lawmakers voiced their concern that Biden’s removal of Saul amounts to “politicization of the Social Security Administration [and] is just the beginning of efforts to raise payroll taxes and seriously undermines bipartisan efforts to save Social Security for future retirees.”