The White House’s fiscal commission has become a target for progressive activists in large part because a number of reports and public statements indicate that the panel will recommend benefit cuts to Social Security. Most of the backlash has come from critics calling on the commission’s co-chair, Republican Alan Simpson, to resign over controversial public statements he’s made about the popular program.
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