

Here’s what’s happening: After reducing the East Wing of the White House to rubble and etching his own name onto the Kennedy Center, Trump has his sights set down the street, on the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which was constructed to be the original headquarters of the Social Security Administration. In that spirit, the building was designed to incorporate publicly owned art that inspired civic pride and common purpose in the public servants who reported for duty in the building.
Trump’s proposed demolition is about more than a building―it erases the true history of our Social Security system. It is consistent with the patchwork of lies that Donald Trump and his allies have spread about Social Security throughout his 2nd term, part of a renewed push toward privatizing the last pillar of economic stability that many Americans can count on.
