The law funded FY2025 Labor-HHS-Education accounts and set the Social Security Administration Limitation on Administrative Expenses at $14,127,978,000. Searches of the law text for "field offices" and "closure" returned no matching text.
The main FY2025 appropriations law during McDonald Rivet's first House term funded SSA administration but did not include a restriction preventing federal funds from being used to close Social Security field offices.
The FY2026 law appropriated SSA funds and provided that not more than $14,671,978,000 may be expended for SSA administrative expenses. Searches of the law text for "field offices" and "field office" returned no matching text.
The enacted FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations text funded SSA operations but did not enact the promised no-funds limitation on closing Social Security field offices.
McDonald Rivet said she secured a Trump Administration commitment that the Saginaw Social Security field office would not close after she sent two GSA letters and held a press conference.
This shows concrete district-level action and an apparent administrative win for one field office, but not a federal funding prohibition covering field-office shutdowns generally.
The report says 65 House members and 40 senators asked Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek to commit to keeping field offices open; it also notes McDonald Rivet held a Saginaw field-office news conference.
The letter and press event indicate advocacy to keep field offices open, but the evidence is an oversight/request effort rather than enacted no-funds legislation.
The report says SSA stated it had not permanently closed or announced permanent closures of local field offices since January 1, 2025, while DOGE listed 22 SSA lease terminations without specifying office type.
This supports that some threatened permanent field-office closures were administratively disputed or avoided, but it also shows there was no clear statutory funding bar and continued uncertainty about federal lease terminations.
Business Insider reported that more than a dozen Social Security field offices were closed to in-person service in April 2026, with causes including facility problems and understaffing; SSA said the closures were temporary.
Continuing field-office service disruptions in 2026 undercut a finding that the broad promise was fully delivered, even though the reported closures were characterized as temporary rather than permanent shutdowns.