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Social Security is not part of the normal budget. It and the social security tax are kept separate from everything else. Congress is not having to decide how much to find it with every year because it's cordoned off, and directly funded by it's relevant income tax. It has been pulling in a surplus, and has funds in reserve. The point where we begin drawing down that reserve is coming soon though, which is why it keeps making news.
I love when nonamericans storm in here acting like authorities on American things they very clearly aren't.
Lol, I'm American, you just can't spell. Cheque is the correct way to spell it, check is incorrect. You also don't know how SS actually functions. Congress has treated it like a slush fund for decades and constantly steals money from it. And yes it is a budget item that gets voted on like anything else. You might think it's an independent account, but that's just the way it's reported on the accounting forms, absolutely nothing is stopping Congress from taking those funds and spending them on whatever they want and in fact on many many occasions they've done exactly that.
Congress doesn't even need the revenue from any taxes to just spend whatever it wants. The US has been borrowing money to cover its budget for all but like 3 years of my life.
The few times they did explicitly borrow that money from the social security fund, they replaced it with Treasury bonds, which is a certified debt and accrue interest and not paying those back would remove Congress' ability to borrow any more money for probably decades. So no, they're not stealing that money - that has been a long time conspiracy theory that people who want to kill Soc Sec like to spread.
And no one in the US spells it like that, no.
The US doesn't need to borrow money as long as the USD remains the world's reserve currency.
Which is why we are completely fucking ourselves by burning all of the good will we've built up since WW2.
No, it DOES need to borrow money. Being the world reserve currency just let's it do so to an exceptional degree. It does this by selling Treasury bonds.
Read about Modern Monterey Theory.
It's all made up, and we print it. We can do whatever we want with it.
Or we could, before our own government started sabotaging our standing in the world.
Issuing bonds is the mechanism by which they do what you're saying. The US, by law, currently cannot just print more money to pay off it's debts. It can print money to buy bonds through the market in some convoluted nonsense, but that direct print to debt that your saying isn't a thing.