几位民主党参议员在7月致函社会保障局局长弗兰克·比西尼亚诺，表达了具体且紧迫的担忧。他们在信中写道，该机构向社会保障受益人发送了“未经请求”的信息，宣传关于唐纳德·特朗普的误导性言论。
Several Democratic senators wrote to Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano in July with a specific and pressing concern. The agency he leads, they wrote, has sent “unsolicited” messages to Social Security recipients, pushing misleading statements about Donald Trump.
信中称：“您正在滥用官方资源对他大加赞赏”，并补充说，社会保障局似乎在“向美国人狂轰滥炸赤裸裸的党派邮件”，吹捧总统。
“You are misusing official resources to heap praise on him,” the letter said, adding that the Social Security Administration appeared to be “bombarding Americans with blatantly partisan emails” touting the president.
如果比西尼亚诺看到了这封信，他显然不在乎。《华盛顿邮报》报道：在至关重要的中期选举前几天，社会保障局局长向公众群发了一封赞扬唐纳德·特朗普总统的电子邮件。
If Bisignano saw the letter, he apparently didn’t care. The Washington Post reported:
社会保障局局长弗兰克·J·比西尼亚诺在发给拥有在线社会保障账户的人的邮件中写道：“在唐纳德·J·特朗普总统的领导下，社会保障局（SSA）正在转变为卓越的典范，满足并超越客户对快速、准确和安全服务的期望。”
Days before consequential midterm elections, the head of the Social Security Administration blasted out an email to the public praising President Donald Trump.
《纽约时报》的一篇相关报道补充说，总统还提名比西尼亚诺领导美国国税局，他还“在周四由国税局发出的一封类似邮件上署了名”。圣路易斯华盛顿大学法学教授凯瑟琳·克拉克对《纽约时报》表示，这些邮件似乎起到了“宣传”的作用，而非提供实用信息的公共服务公告。
“Under President Donald J. Trump, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is transforming into a model of excellence, one that meets and exceeds customer expectations for fast, accurate, and secure service,” Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano wrote to people with online Social Security accounts. A related report in The New York Times added that Bisignano, whom the president also tapped to lead the Internal Revenue Service, also “signed his name on a similar email sent out” by the IRS on Thursday Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told the Times the emails seemed to function as “propaganda” rather than as public service announcements providing practical information.
这当然属实，但更广泛的模式让事态严重得多。例如，两周前，比西尼亚诺向拥有在线社会保障账户的人发送了一条类似的挺特朗普信息，专门以名字庆祝总统10次，并使用了一个对共和党友好的标签来称呼该党去年的减税方案。
That’s certainly true, though the broader pattern makes matters significantly worse. For example, Bisignano sent a related pro-Trump message to those with online Social Security accounts two weeks ago, specifically celebrating the president by name 10 times and using a Republican-friendly label for the party’s package of tax breaks from last year.
今年7月初，社会保障局（SSA）还发出了一封未经请求的电子邮件，庆祝共和党的减税政策——在一封五段落的邮件中，以名字或头衔提到了特朗普六次——此前，该局已在2025年7月和2025年8月向社会保障受益人发送过相关的政治邮件。
In early July, the Social Security Administration also sent out an unsolicited email celebrating Republican tax breaks — it referred to Trump, by name or title, six times in a five-paragraph email — which followed related political emails to Social Security beneficiaries in July 2025 and August 2025.
拜登政府时期担任社会保障局局长的马丁·奥马利在针对这一最新事件向MaddowBlog发表的声明中说：“社会保障正被用作大选前的亲特朗普选民联络平台。这是在大选前利用每一位美国人的个人数据散布谎言，属于非法滥用。”美国人需要能够依赖名义上非政治化的联邦机构获取准确信息，且不受党派色彩污染。当公众看到特朗普在网上或媒体采访中发表狂言时，大多数人大概都意识到，最好以怀疑态度对待他的胡言乱语。
Martin O’Malley, who served as the commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the Biden administration, said in a statement to MaddowBlog after this latest incident, “Social Security is being used as a pro-Trump voter contact platform before this election. It is an illegal misuse of the personal data of every American to deliver falsehoods before the election.”Americans need to be able to rely on ostensibly apolitical federal agencies for accurate information, free of partisan taint. When the public sees Trump rant online or during a media interview, most probably realize it’s best to approach his nonsense with skepticism.
但当人们收到社会保障局发来的未经请求的官方声明时，他们理应能有信心认为，该机构不会试图用政治信息游说他们。
But when people get unsolicited official statements from the Social Security Administration, they should be able to have some confidence that the agency isn’t trying to lobby them with political messaging.
然而，现实却是，我们眼睁睁看着社会保障局加入了被政治化的机构名单，沦为白宫政治工具箱中的党派工具。
And yet, here we are, watching the SSA join a list of politicized agencies, being used as partisan tools in the White House’s political toolbox.