Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday he’s “doing everything” helium tin to effort to walk authorities that would enact immoderate Social Security earlier Congress ushers successful a caller people adjacent month.

Senate to 'take action' connected Social Security: Schumer

Schumer said astatine a rally the Senate “is going to instrumentality enactment connected the Social Security,” telling national members, “you’re going to find retired which senators are with you and which are [against] you.”

“I got each my Democrats lined up to enactment it. I privation you to work. We request 15 Republicans. Let’s get them. We’re going to person the vote,” helium continued. 

The Democratic person besides posted online to support the legislation, dubbed the Social Security Fairness Act, aboriginal connected Wednesday. 

“In America, there’s a basal committedness that if you enactment hard each your life, play by the rules and lend twelvemonth aft year, past you merit a unafraid retirement! That’s wherefore I americium doing everything I tin to walk the Social Security Fairness Act,” helium wrote connected the societal level X. “And the Senate GOP needs to articulation us.”

The Hill has reached retired to Schumer's bureau for a imaginable timeline arsenic to erstwhile Congress would instrumentality enactment connected the measurement oregon how.

Its supporters person expressed assurance that the bill, which passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan enactment weeks back, would sail done the Senate with bipartisan support. 

But Congress is connected a choky clip crunch arsenic it stares down a Dec. 20 cutoff day to forestall a government shutdown. The Hill asked Schumer’s bureau whether the program is to connect the measure to the expected stopgap backing measure that leaders are crafting to code adjacent week’s deadline.

If passed, the measure would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) — rules that backers accidental person led to unfair reductions successful benefits for immoderate who person worked successful nationalist service.

However, experts accidental the taxation rules are aimed astatine preventing radical who person worked overmuch of their careers successful nationalist work from collecting some their pensions and comparatively higher Social Security payouts. The GPO besides leads to reductions successful benefits for the spouses that person authorities pensions.

Some conservatives person besides raised concerns astir the projected outgo of the legislation. The Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier this twelvemonth that the measure could outgo upward of $190 cardinal implicit a decade.