Well this is just great..... Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a decade

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68. Biden appointees write for WaPo?

This is a newspaper article purporting to present a trustees' report.

The WaPo, not the trustees for SS, use such language as, "last year, federal actuaries said the programs could go belly-up sooner." Now, you may read "belly-up" as "paying 80% of benefits." But I think that's a stretch.

This particular instance is particularly good, because the WaPo is reporting this impending catastrophe while saying that the current report says we're better off than we were last year.

So I'd say that "they" could include: Newspapers looking to get eyeballs with sensationalistic headlines and breathless reportage, along with the business and governmental interests that have been trying to kill SS since it started.

Just a couple of nominees. Not sure that's who the person you asked had in mind. Just trying to help with some apparent confusion between a newspaper and the US Government.