“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt.”
What PolitiFact found
When Social Security runs a deficit, it relies on its reserve funds that the Treasury Department holds in government bonds. Treasury has to borrow money to repay the bonds, which adds to the federal deficit.
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In short
Occupy Democrats (Organization) made this claim around 12 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 January 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Occupy Democrats has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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