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• President Goes 0-for-4 for Retirees

  February 10, 2020: Fiscal 2021 Budget Would Cut Health Care for Older Americans The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding President Trump’s budget proposal for fisc Read More >

• ‘Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,’ Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare

  January 23, 2020: "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." Read More >

• Trump Confirms Social Security and Medicare Cuts Will Be On the Table at the “End of This Year”

  January 22, 2020: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding President Trump’s acknowledgment on CNBC that he would look to cut "entitlements" if re-elected: “Aft Read More >

• Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams

  October 18, 2019: By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News  OCTOBER 9, 2019 (Hannah Norman/KHN illustration; Getty Images) Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his Read More >

• Retirees Mark Older Americans Month with Release of Voting Record

  May 16, 2019: Report Shows Which Senators and Members of Congress Voted to Protect Retirement Security in 2018 Washington, DC – The Alliance for Retired Americans today released its 2018 Congressional Voting Record which scores each U.S. S Read More >

• Trump Goes After Health Care for Seniors Proposes $1 Trillion in Cruel Cuts from Medicare, Medicaid

  March 11, 2019: Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding the release of President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget. “When Donald Trump was campaigning for President in 2016, h Read More >

• Statement by Retiree Leader Fiesta on the House and Senate Drug Price Hearings

  January 29, 2019: For Immediate Release The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the hearings convened by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Senate Read More >

• Retirees Support Pelosi for Speaker

  November 19, 2018: For Immediate Release Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on Nancy Pelosi’s bid to be the next Speaker of the House. “Retirees could not have a better champion or more t Read More >

• House Democrats Gain Ground with Retirees

  November 07, 2018: In Dramatic Shift from 2014, 65+ Voters Favored Democratic House Candidates Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, following Tuesday’s midterm elections: “Voters over the a Read More >

• Word is Out: Cuts to Seniors’ Earned Benefits are on the Ballot this November

  October 17, 2018: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comments about cutting so-called “entitlements”: “There Read More >