June 20, 2025

Arizona Alliance Hosts Social Security Town Hall

On Monday, the Arizona Alliance, Honest Arizona, and
Protect Our Care hosted a special town hall event with
Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ) and Former SSA Commissioner
Martin O’Malley.

O’Malley highlighted the importance of Social Security, detailing the damage that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has inflicted on the Social Security
Administration and outlining what Arizonans can do about
it.

“We’ve seen Elon Musk and his DOGE team go through with a chainsaw and bring that agency down to a seven year low in staffing,” said O’Malley. “So, when you see field offices all over in Phoenix, in Tuscon, all over Arizona packed with people there’s a reason. It’s because they’ve cut your Social Security, and the only thing that can save us is people rising up, calling their Congresspeople, whether Democrats or Republicans, and telling them ‘I’ve earned this benefit my whole life’ and fight to defend it.”

“We wanted to do this event because we wanted to get this message across: That there is an attack on Social Security,” said Rep. Stanton. “The other side has suggested that they’re gonna defend Social Security – it is not true with some of the changes and cuts that we have seen.”

This was originally published in the June 20, 2025 edition of the Friday Alert. Read the full length version and see other Friday Alert editions here.