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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho are the Social Security Trustees?
The trustees write the yearly trustees reports. These are the yearly reports about Social Security's finances that are the source of all information reported in the media.
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security. Former biotech lawyer, former associate counsel for Reagan & Bush, former Deputy Counsel Health & Human services.
Carolyn W. Colvin, Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. Has been in various positions at the SSA since 1994. Most of career in government.
Hilda L. Solis: Former Secretary of Labor. Has left the administration to return to California. Seems to have been pro-labor, but "not a member of Obama's inner circle" & reportedly not a power player.
Kathleen Sebelius: Secretary of Health and Human Services & former Democratic Kansas governor. According to 'Conservapedia' she's considered "pro-business, pro-military & fiscally conservative".
Charles P. Blahous III: "Bush's point man on privatization" & "employed by the Koch Brothers' funded Mercatus Institute at GMU." Research fellow at Hoover Institution. Former aide to George Bush, Alan Simpson, Judd Gregg. Ex-Hudson Institute.
Robert D. Reischauer: "'deficit hawk' and 'entitlements crisis' promoter". Has been described as "Peter G Peterson's representative to the Social Security Trustees". Former director of CBO. Urban Institute, Brookings Institution.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/TR/trustees.html
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)a nasty bunch.
No thanks, Obama. We see through your game.
bornskeptic
(1,330 posts)The Trustees Report is written by the Social Security actuaries, who are civil servants, not political appointees.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)the Social Security Administration actuaries, the Trustees estimate the income and expenditures of the Funds, taking into account projections of both demographic and economic factors."
Who signs the Trustees reports? The trustees, not the actuaries. The reports are issued as the statement of the trustees. No doubt the actuaries do the bulk of the work; nevertheless, the reports are issued as the *Trustees* reports.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services , the Treasury and Commissioner of Social Security automatically get a seat due to their positions. The others are appointed. "Employed by the Koch Brothers". Good grief!