Mass Live: ‘Prelude to privatization?’: Mass. Sen. Warren seeks answers on Trump’s plans for Social Security

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants President Donald Trump’s pick to run the U.S. Social Security Administration to come clean about the Republican White House’s plans for an agency that touches the lives of millions of Americans.

Frank Bisignano, the banker and financial technology executive tapped to lead the agency, is set to appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.

Ahead of that appearance, Warren, D-Mass., and the panel’s ranking Democrat, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, are calling on Bisignano to commit to stopping a raft of executive actions that they fear are a “prelude to [privatizing]” the New Deal-era agency.

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