“Protect and expand Social Security so beneficiaries can count on the guaranteed benefits they have paid into.”
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The FULL (kept) rating is upheld, but one cited source quote is partly fabricated and has been corrected. VERIFIED: (1) Senate Roll Call #338 (PRIMARY) confirms Baldwin (D-WI) voted Yea and that H.R. 82 'to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions' passed 76 Yea / 20 Nay. (2) GovTrack (SECONDARY, fetched via curl after WebFetch/direct 403) confirms 'H.R. 82 (118th): Social Security Fairness Act of 2023,' Senate Vote #338, Dec. 21, 2024, 'On Passage of the Bill in the Senate,' result 'Passed,' tally 76-20, with Baldwin's row marked Yea. (3) The SSA page (live 403 via Akamai; verified through Wayback snapshots of the exact cited URL dated July 9, 10, and 18, 2025) genuinely contains the outcome-relevant text: 'The Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025. The Act ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO)' and 'This law increases Social Security benefits for certain types of workers, including some: teachers, firefighters, and police officers in many states.' This directly documents an enacted EXPANSION/restoration of guaranteed benefits for public-sector retirees who paid into the system, matching the promise. HOWEVER, the second half of the rating's SSA quote — 'As of July 7, 2025, we completed sending over 3.1 million payments, totaling $17 billion, to beneficiaries eligible under the Social Security Fairness Act' — does NOT appear on that page in any July 2025 snapshot; the page instead cites 'over 2.8 million people' affected and '273,023 new applications' as of July 4, 2025. That statistic is fabricated/misattributed to this URL and has been struck from the verified source quote below. Because the outcome (Baldwin voted Yea on an enacted law expanding/restoring Social Security benefits) is independently and completely established by the two fully-verified sources plus the genuine core of the SSA page, the promise was kept and FULL stands. Confidence lowered from 0.85 to 0.80 to reflect the fabricated supporting statistic.
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