We should renegotiate trade deals, protect Social Security and Medicare, and initiate antitrust suits against the most egregious corporate abuses.
Protect Social Security and Medicare.
Occurrences
Evidence
Axios reported that Hawley introduced the Protect Medicaid and Rural Hospitals Act only two weeks after voting for the Trump megabill that imposed those cuts.
Kiplinger says the enacted law triggers automatic Medicare cuts of about $500 billion over eight years starting in 2026.
Kiplinger says the new senior bonus deduction can slightly hasten Social Security trust-fund depletion by reducing taxable income tied to the program.
Assessments
Hawley’s post-2024 record in his later Senate term does not show delivery on a promise to protect Social Security and Medicare. The strongest evidence points the other way: he supported a major Trump-backed bill that, according to the cited evidence, triggered substantial automatic Medicare cuts beginning in 2026 and did not strengthen Social Security’s finances, with one provision potentially accelerating trust-fund depletion. Although he later introduced a bill to reverse some Medicaid-related damage, that was after backing the broader package and was not a material delivery on protecting Social Security and Medicare themselves. Under the federal candidate-credit standard, this is a failed outcome rather than full or partial delivery.