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ChampionedSocial Security & Medicare

Committed to fight against any attempts to cut or target Social Security and Medicare, and to oppose efforts to privatize or weaken these programs.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 78%

All three cited PRIMARY sources are reachable and support the rating. The CHAMPIONED-defining leadership evidence is verified: the July 18, 2025 release confirms Rosen is the lead sponsor who "introduced a resolution in the Senate opposing" the Trump Administration's funding cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — authorship/leadership beyond a single vote, directly on-point for the promise. The headline appears verbatim. The April 2025 source verifies her protective vote: the substantive quote ("protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and combat President Trump's cost-raising tariffs, but Senate Republicans blocked them") appears verbatim (the rating renders the sentence's subject as "Rosen" where the page reads "She also," a pronoun substitution, not a fabrication). The December 2024 source verifies she voted to pass the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act (a vote, correctly characterized as such, not authorship). Since at least one source establishes genuine authoring/leading of an anti-cut effort, CHAMPIONED is supported. Confidence held at 0.78 because the leadership instance is a non-binding messaging resolution rather than enacted law, and the two reinforcing actions are votes rather than further leadership.

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