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5. Exactly. It is not "insolvent" either. But massive inequality and stupid GOP immigration policy . . .
Thu Jun 11, 2026, 10:58 AM
Jun 11

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. . . are sucking money out of it. Rather than tell the truth about it, Republicans are trying to gaslight Americans into believing it's "full of fraud", "going broke," or "insolvent" and "needs reform". When a Republican says "reform", they mean "destroy".

It's bullshit.

ONLY DEMOCRATS will (once that orange lizard is gone) raise or remove the cap and enact reasonable immigration policies, such as the bill Trump himself stopped Congress from passing in 2024. He called his Congressional friends in 2024 and begged them not to vote for the bill because he wanted to run on immigration. One Republican got in front of cameras and said, "We're not gonna give Biden a win on this."

For Republicans, immigration is a POLITICAL FOOTBALL to be used to their ideological advantage (a white nationalist tool for getting rid of brown people), not an actual issue to be solved. They don't give a rat's ass about immigration or the economy. The only thing they care about is how they can use "immigration" for their political advantage and white nationalist ideals.

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