President Donald Trump's $2.2 trillion 2027 Budget, released Friday, provides $14.7 billion for the Social Security Administration, the same amount as in 2026 and slightly less than the $14.9 billion requested by the agency's commissioner, Frank Bisignano.
Several public interest organizations sharply criticized the budget proposal, which aims to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion next year — up from the $1 trillion sought for fiscal year 2026.
"After unleashing DOGE to decimate the Social Security Administration, Trump's spending blueprint flat-funds the agency, providing less than even his own Social Security Commissioner requested," Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said Friday in a statement.
"Trump proposes to cut some $15 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services, after slashing the workforce that administers Medicare and Medicaid," Richtman added.
The budget "leaves Social Security on a track to be insolvent within the decade, and it relies on an entire decade of rosy economic assumptions for the vast majority of its improvements in the nation's finances," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in another statement.
Also, MacGuineas noted, the proposed budget "includes no summary figures of deficits or debt ... . It is an astonishing lack of information."
Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, added in an email Friday that "it appears to us, on a relatively cursory look, that SSA only has around level funding and level staffing, which represents a significant cut, because its fixed costs go up substantially every year and the number of people reaching age 65 continues at 12,000 every day. Consequently, this budget likely translates to continuing deteriorating service."
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