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IgnoredSeniors / Social Security Funding

Alsobrooks advocates for eliminating the payroll cap on Social Security taxes to ensure the program's long-term solvency.

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IgnoredFact-checker reviewConfidence: 60%

The promise (from Alsobrooks' campaign platform) is that she "advocates for eliminating the payroll cap on Social Security taxes to ensure the program's long-term solvency." Evaluating her time in office (sworn in Jan 2025), the most direct measure of pursuing this specific promise — signing onto legislation that lifts/eliminates the cap — shows non-participation, which I confirmed against two independent sources. She is NOT a cosponsor of S.770, the Social Security Expansion Act, the flagship bill that lifts the payroll cap by applying the tax to income above $250,000: the Senate Democratic newsroom lists its 10 Senate cosponsors at introduction (including her senior Maryland colleague Chris Van Hollen) with no Alsobrooks, and FastDemocracy's S.770 cosponsor list (Warren, Merkley, Welch, Padilla, Smith, Van Hollen, Markey, Booker, Gillibrand, Whitehouse) likewise omits her. I specifically ruled out a false positive: a search summary claimed she cosponsored S.770, but that traced to a DIFFERENT bill — Warren's Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act (a temporary $200/month benefit boost that does not touch the payroll cap), which she did cosponsor. That non-cap measure, plus defensive rallies/oversight against DOGE-era SSA cuts, is the extent of her in-office Social Security work; no in-office statement was found in which she specifically advocated lifting/eliminating the cap (the vocal cap advocates in these searches are Warren, Moreno, and Whitehouse, not Alsobrooks). She had clear, repeated opportunities to act on this specific promise and did not, which fits IGNORED rather than PARTIAL/ATTEMPTED (no cap action or failed attempt) or MISALIGNED/HOSTILE (she remains broadly pro-Social Security). Confidence is moderate because "advocacy" is a soft promise verb and freshman senators cosponsor selectively, but on every checkable dimension she has not pursued the cap specifically.

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