Senators Demand Trump Admin Come Clean on Plan to 'Quietly Kill' Social Security Offices

The lawmakers accused the Social Security Administration of “a slash-first, think-later approach,” for which “beneficiaries will pay the price.”
By Brett Wilkins
Published Dec 11, 2025

Leading Senate Democrats and Independent US Sen. Bernie Sanders this week pressed the Trump administration for answers following reports that the Social Security Administration is planning to dramatically reduce visits to its field offices.

“We write with concerns regarding recent reports that the Social Security Administration is reorganizing its field office operations, and has established a goal of cutting the number of field office visits in half—amounting to 15 million fewer visits annually,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote in a letter to SSA Administrator Frank Bisignano.

“Given that beneficiaries are already waiting months for field office appointments, and the agency has not shared with Congress or the public on how it plans to achieve this goal, we are concerned that these efforts are in fact part of a plan to ‘quietly kill field offices,’ implementing a backdoor cut in benefits by making it harder for Americans to access the Social Security customer services they need,” the senators said.

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