On the matter of a Social Security pledge, he said he had signed a similar one in August that Mr. Forrester had refused to sign.
The Social Security pledge he signed today said he would flatly oppose any attempt to divert payroll taxes from the Social Security fund to accounts that are controlled by individuals, a change that is the key component of any privatization plan.
Mulvaney argued that doing so doesn't violate Trump's Social Security campaign pledge because most people only think of retirement insurance when they think of Social Security.
The report strongly influenced the domestic agenda of the Attlee government: the creation of the National Health Service, the provision of cradle to grave social security and the pledge to build more homes.
But Mr. Bush must still reconcile his goals on Social Security with his campaign pledge to reduce the federal deficit by half by 2009.
If the new Congress lacks the old one's resolve to defend Social Security (see who's pledged to defend it here), your future will suddenly look grimmer.
It looks to me like there are too many members of Congress who can't vote for any package, due to prior pledges: Democrats who can't vote for cuts in Social Security benefits or eligibility, Republicans pledged not to ever vote to raise taxes, and some pledged to never vote to raise the debt ceiling for any reason.
But Republicans devised answers to take the edge off: a watered-down prescription-drug bill, pledges on Social Security, action for the cameras on corporate abuse.
Duncan Smith released figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) asserting that the first minister's pledges on social security post-independence would cost each working-age adult in Scotland an extra £450 a year over the next 20 years.
Ever since Bill Clinton greeted the new era of surpluses in 1998 with the pledge to "save Social Security first," Republicans and Democrats alike have made ever more fervent pledges to use the taxes collected for Social Security solely for retirement benefits or paying down debt.
The bedroom tax, the £12bn pledged in social security cuts; the benefit cap; the systematic demonisation of benefit claimants.
