Amid Republican threats to cut Medicare and Social Security, I’ll push to protect these critical benefits for Michiganders who earned them through a lifetime of hard work, while looking for ways we can responsibly reduce the deficit and save taxpayer dollars.
Push to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits while seeking responsible deficit reduction and taxpayer savings.
Occurrences
Evidence
The June 3, 2026 update on Peters’s legislation page lists him as a cosponsor of S.3934, the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2026, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare medical nutrition therapy services.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously advanced the Kennedy-Peters bill to end improper payments to deceased Americans; the release says it would save hard-earned taxpayer money and permanently let SSA share the Death Master File with Treasury's Do Not Pay system.
Assessments
Peters has ongoing, active legislative involvement that aligns with the promise, including cosponsoring Medicare-related expansion legislation and advancing a bipartisan bill to reduce improper Social Security-related payments and save taxpayer money. The evidence shows real advocacy and committee progress, but not a completed durable policy result that fully delivers the broader promise of protecting benefits while achieving responsible deficit reduction.