Funding Social Security and Medicare ... Funds that are reserved for Social Security and Medicare should not be used to fund other government programs. Congressman Rick Allen is making sure the federal government doesn’t use these funds as well as making sure these programs have steady funding so they are available for future generations.
Rick W. Allen will keep Social Security and Medicare trust funds reserved for those programs and ensure they have steady funding.
Occurrences
Evidence
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SSA's Chief Actuary wrote that Public Law 119-21, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, would lower projected revenue from income taxation of Social Security benefits beginning in 2025, increase OASDI program cost by $168.6 billion over 2025-2034, accelerate reserve depletion, and worsen the 75-year actuarial balance.
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The House Clerk recorded the July 3, 2025 vote on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed 218-214; Representative Allen, Republican of Georgia, voted Aye.
Assessments
The promise was to preserve Social Security and Medicare trust-fund resources and ensure steady funding. The available record instead shows Allen voted in July 2025 for H.R. 1, enacted as Public Law 119-21, which the Social Security Chief Actuary found would reduce dedicated revenue from taxation of Social Security benefits, increase OASDI costs, accelerate reserve depletion, and worsen long-term actuarial balance. That is contrary to the promised outcome, and there is no evidence here of a successful measure by Allen that kept the funds reserved and steadily funded. Because the key contrary action occurred after the 2022 election term began and in a later congressional term, timing is later_term.