Originally Posted by davebb (Post 13293656)

WEP is gone but it was noticeable that for months none of the pro-bill lobbyists once brought up the sticky subject of the benefits to foreign pensioners for fear of derailing it, and I honestly doubt any of the lazy turds that voted for it bothered to find out why WEP even existed in the first place. It was all framed as helping out our poor old lady teachers and brave firefighters who had been so badly mistreated over the last 40 years, none of which was true. Wait until the supposed DOGE finds out a substantial amount of that money went to undeserving immigrants. Now that the bill is past, I would not be surprised in the slightest if these disingenuous arseholes think up a whole new version of WEP just for us, and I wouldn't expect to be fairly calculated at all.

Originally Posted by crawshaws (Post 13293715)

I don't think the numbers you quote are applicable for this calculus, but I'm sure you're correct that the impact on US SS insolvency from first generation immigrants benefiting from the WEP repeal is small compared to US government pensioned workers.

Originally Posted by USADragon (Post 13293736)

Didn't Cruz propose an amendment (voted down) that excluded foreign pensions from the repeal? I thought I had read that somewhere...