I am the only woman here who’s going to protect Social Security
Protect Social Security.
Occurrences
She will protect the benefits that seniors in Southwest Washington are counting on for their retirement and that they’ve paid into their whole working lives.
Evidence
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Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez said her bipartisan team had brought more than $3 million back home to constituents facing difficulties with federal agencies, including "hard-earned social security checks."
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The congresswoman said her office had returned more than $10 million to constituents owed by federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration.
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Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez led 81 colleagues in urging appropriators to continue funding nutrition assistance for low-income seniors.
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Asked how she would protect and strengthen Social Security, Gluesenkamp Perez said it is critically important to protect the solvency of the trust fund, opposed further limiting the access age, and cited removing the cap or taxing high-income earners fairly as ways to protect solvency.
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Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez and Rep. Don Bacon introduced a bipartisan balanced budget amendment. The release says the amendment includes provisions protecting Social Security and Medicare payments and quotes Perez saying it would protect vital programs communities depend on.
Assessments
Gluesenkamp Perez took same-term actions related to protecting Social Security beneficiaries, including helping constituents recover delayed Social Security checks and introducing a bipartisan balanced-budget amendment described as protecting Social Security and Medicare payments. However, the evidence does not show an enacted federal law or completed policy outcome that materially protected or strengthened Social Security as a program. The record supports practical and legislative effort, but not full delivery of the promised outcome.
The evidence shows same-term actions connected to Social Security beneficiaries, especially constituent-service work recovering delayed or owed Social Security checks and other federal benefits. She also took related action supporting low-income seniors. However, the record provided does not show that she enacted, sponsored into law, or materially advanced a federal policy that protected Social Security as a program or its long-term benefits. This supports partial credit rather than full delivery.
Available evidence shows Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez took same-term actions related to Social Security beneficiaries, especially constituent-service work recovering delayed or owed Social Security payments, and broader senior-support advocacy. However, the evidence does not show enactment or decisive legislative/executive delivery of a direct policy protection for Social Security benefits or solvency. This supports partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.