Press Releases

• Trump Administration Abandons Older Americans with HHS Cuts

  March 27, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s sweeping staff cuts and reorganization at the Department of Health and Human S...Read more >

• Retirees Shouldn’t Count on Frank Bisignano to Stop Musk’s Destruction of the Social Security Administration

  March 25, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding Frank Bisignano’s confirmation hearing today before the Senate Finance Committee. “Retirees who tuned into ...Read more >

• Acting Social Security Commissioner Threatens to Hold 73 Million Americans’ Benefits Hostage

  March 21, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding Acting Social Security Commissioner Lee Dudek’s threats to shut down the Social Security Administration (SSA) in...Read more >

• TRO Issued in Retiree, Union Lawsuit to Block DOGE’s Access to Social Security Data

  March 20, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement re. the U.S. District Court of the District of Maryland issuing a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in American Federation o...Read more >

• DOGE Continues Dismantling SSA by Ending Telephone Services for Claims

  March 19, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) abrupt termination of telephone services for benefit claims: “Pr...Read more >

• Retirees Outraged at Possible End to Social Security Telephone Services

  March 12, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement in response to a Washington Post report that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is considering “ending telephone ser...Read more >

• Unions, Retirees Seek Emergency Relief to Block DOGE’s Unlawful Social Security Data Overreach

  March 08, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Illegal Access to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Baltimore, MD — Yesterday, a coalition of unions and retirees filed a motion for emergency relief to...Read more >

• Trump’s Lies on Social Security Continue—Americans Deserve the Truth and the Social Security They Earned

  March 04, 2025: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on President Trump’s Lies About Social Security during his Address to a Joint Session of Congress "Tonight, President Trump doubled down on Elon Musk’s debu...Read more >

• Musk Undercuts Trump’s Promise Not to Cut Social Security

  March 01, 2025: Appearance on Joe Rogan is Latest Evidence of a Systematic Campaign to Gut Retirement Security The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans: President Trump repeatedly promised “...Read more >

• SUIT FILED: In New Challenge, Retirees, Unions Seek to Block DOGE’s Unprecedented, Unlawful Social Security Data, Power Grab

  February 22, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Access, Executed by Unconfirmed, Acting Official, to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Suit filed on heels of SSA Acting Head’s Departure Amid Concerns ab...Read more >