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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation Tuesday that would curb federal agencies’ “billion-dollar” binge spending at the end of the year.

Walter Terrell, 76, will serve six months in jail for fraudulently collecting his dead mother’s social security checks.

During a campaign stop in Davenport, Iowa, presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said illegal immigrants in America should be allowed to receive social security benefits, along with a pathway to citizenship.

Populist columnist Daniel McCarthy says the future of Western Civilization is vastly more fundamental to the American nation than economic libertarians’ worries over Social Security and Medicaid funding.

The First Step Act, if signed into law by President Trump, would reduce the federal prison population by 53,000 inmates, the CBO reveals.

According to figures on non-EU citizens, around 60 percent of “retired” migrants living in Italy have never worked.

The First Step Act could be the beginning of a joint effort to address challenges that have ready solutions but that, because of their political difficulty, need bipartisan support to pass.

On Friday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was berated for his politics by several disgruntled diners as he tried to enjoy his meal.

Retired Americans collecting Social Security payments will get their biggest payout in seven years starting in 2019.

Ivanka Trump expressed heartache over the shooting in Jacksonville on Sunday and the left responded by mauling her on social media.

Social Security employee Anne Aroste has been arrested and charged with fraud, after funneling illegitimate benefits into her own bank account.

Medicare will become insolvent in 2026, just eight years from now, and Social Security will follow in 2034, just 16 years from now, the Associated Press reports.

An Alabama couple was convicted of Social Security fraud Thursday after testimony revealed that they lied about their incomes to receive benefits.

A North Texas woman faces charges for allegedly sending three separate explosive devices to then-President Barack Obama, Governor Greg Abbott, and the Social Security Administration in late 2016.

Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are outraged that the U.S. Senate’s proposed tax reform makes employee stock option compensation less attractive and forces companies to pay employer taxes.

Almost half of illegal aliens shielded from deportation under an Obama-created temporary amnesty program have previously worked in the United States despite not holding valid Social Security numbers authorizing them to work.

Millions of Social Security recipients will be receiving fatter checks from the government starting in 2018.

The California Department of Business issued a new report that reveals seniors are the largest group among the almost half million Californians who took out a payday loan at interest rates of up to 30 percent last year.

The popularity of the name Caitlyn has plummeted more than any other baby name, a year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender.

Congress plans to take up legislation next week that is designed to block Barack Obama’s gun ban for Social Security recipients who require help with their finances.

Finland is launching a “radical experiment” to see if a simple monthly payment can replace the nation’s ever-expanding tangle of welfare programs.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has promised conservatives for years that he would be able to deliver on his promises to fix the entitlement system, reform the tax code, pay off the national debt and repeal Obamacare once a Republican was president.

During the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton claimed the Affordable Care Act has “extended the lifespan of the Medicare trust fund.”

The Freedom Partners Institute, a right-leaning nonprofit organization, argues the CBO’s projections “fail to take the complete economic forecast into account” by not including intra-governmental debt, that is, money owed to trust funds like Social Security and Medicare.

The Conservative party’s failed attempts to control spending and bring down public debt breach “human rights”, the United Nations (UN) has declared, calling for a bigger state and a higher minimum wage.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton harbors the desire to change Social Security for the cause of “fiscal responsibility,” which conflicts with both her current campaign platform and also the platform of her opponent Donald Trump.

Republican candidate Donald Trump focused this weekend on his economic platform: cut taxes and regulations across the board while also saving Social Security, Medicare and other government safety-net programs.

Unelected bureaucrats recently proposed the imposition of a new rule that would affect all Medicare Part B providers and nearly all Medicare drugs. Such bureaucrats, however, have been operating for years, forcing Americans onto government-run healthcare under pain of loss of Social Security benefits.

An illegal immigrant was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, for allegedly stealing the identity of a deceased U.S. military veteran in order to get the vet’s Social Security payments and other benefits. The scam had been going on for over four years, authorities say.

SAN BERNARDINO — Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump “will not be the next president of the United States” on Tuesday evening as he riled up thousands of his fans who had gathered both inside and outside the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced legislation to stop President Barack Obama from imposing a stealthy gun ban on an estimated 75,000 Social Security beneficiaries.

An unintentionally revealing interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan shows exactly why he’s being touted as an establishment replacement for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, and also why Trump is the shocking frontrunner for the 2016 nomination.

On February 4, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced legislation to shield Social Security beneficiaries from having their Second Amendment rights taken away via Obama’s gun ban. On July 18, 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported

Texas Republicans were quick to condemn President Obama’s violation of the Second Amendment through his unconstitutional executive action on gun control.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens before the 2016 presidential election.

In a radio interview airing on Sunday, former U.S. Comptroller General and chief of the Government Accountability Office Dave Walker asserted that America’s national debt is over three times the official figure, which dramatically understates the government’s financial commitments.