How to avoid a Social Security cut? Lawmakers are floating ideas for what to do

Bipartisan duo Sen. Dick Durbin (D) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), both nearing the end of their Senate careers, are leading an urgent push to prevent a projected 22% Social Security cut due in about six years by creating a process to draft a 50-year solvency bill.
Their plan would fast-track a draft from the bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board for congressional consideration — a move critics (including AARP) say limits debate and forces a politically risky vote that many lawmakers want to avoid.
Competing fixes on the table range from Cassidy’s controversial $1.5 trillion investment fund (criticized as debt‑funded) to proposals to lift the payroll‑tax cap on high earners (backed by Warren, Sanders and others) to raise new revenue.