U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, bill co-sponsor
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Senate Democrats introduced a bill Friday to raise the floor for unemployment insurance and cover more workers, citing fears of AI job losses. Republicans control the Senate, so its chances look slim.
Eleven days before the midterm, the Social Security Administration called fiscal 2026 its best year ever. The phone number it highlights is the same measure the agency's inspector general found leaves out callback waits, and the claim comes after the agency lost thousands of workers.
Ukraine's defense minister says the military-grade Starlink service is running at full speed again. The episode leaves open who ordered the slowdown, and how much a private company controls on the battlefield.
On Oct. 22, less than two weeks before Election Day, the Social Security Administration sent beneficiaries an email praising President Trump and the new 'Trump Accounts' for children. In July, five Democratic senators had told the agency's chief to stop sending messages like this.
At Kansas's final Senate debate, Republican Sen. Roger Marshall said he would remove the cap on income taxed for Social Security, going further than his Democratic opponent. In 2020 his stated fix for Social Security was to look at raising the retirement age for younger workers.
Two Republican senators broke with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff after he called Vladimir Putin a humanitarian during the release of an American held in Russia. The criticism comes as Republicans in Congress also object to Trump's pause on Russia sanctions.
The Massachusetts Democrat says rising grocery prices and food-stamp cuts are squeezing families, and she wants the USDA to work with Congress to undo the cuts. Older readers on fixed incomes feel both pressures at once.
The Social Security Administration says it has changed records tied to nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, using a Homeland Security citizenship tool the Supreme Court is letting states use, for now, to check voter rolls. The agency has not said whether any of the changes affected anyone's benefits.
