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The Social Security Trust Fund Deception

The Wall Street Journal

June 12, 2026

Few deceptions in American politics are quite so pernicious as the notion that the Social Security trust fund exists.

- By Joseph C. Sternberg

Again this week we’ve received another warning that trust funds that are essentially nonexistent are on the verge of running out of money they already don’t have.

This story is from the June 12, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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