Will the 2020 pandemic relief payouts through unemployment and the?
Some politician, some day may make such a claim. Just as they claim now that cutting benefits will balance the budget. It will be a lie then in the same way that it is a lie now. Social Security is funded by payroll withholding. The money does not go into the general fund, where the deficit exists. Payments do not come out of it. In theory, SS should affect the federal budget in the same way my neighbors car payment affects mine. In practice, those lying thieves in DC never saw someone elses money they didnt want.