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
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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.
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Kiplinger says the enacted law triggers automatic Medicare cuts of about $500 billion over eight years starting in 2026.
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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.