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This week on the podcast, we consider this startling question: What would happen to Social Security if we eliminate its funding?
That’s the question I’m asking myself following Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum last weekend ordering the deferral through year-end of revenue collected under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act - bett…