ICYMI: Sununu Claimed his Social Security Privatization Plan Would Have Worked

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September 2, 2026

ICYMI: Sununu Claimed his Social Security Privatization Plan Would Have Worked

In Case You Missed It, U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu touted his plan to privatize Social Security on WMUR’s CloseUp over the weekend, claiming, “if we had passed that bill, the system would be solvent today” while refusing to answer whether he still supports privatizing Social Security.

While in office, Sununu repeatedly introduced legislation to privatize Social Security that would have exposed Granite Staters’ retirement savings to stock market crashes and increased profits for Wall Street firms. As a “leading figure in the effort” to privatize Social Security, Sununu co-sponsored legislation that had been projected to accelerate the timeline of Social Security’s insolvency, and he supports Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that has also sped up Social Security’s insolvency timeline, threatening the benefits that hundreds of thousands of Granite Staters rely on.

Watch Sununu tout his Social Security privatization plan below:

ADAM SEXTON: Another one of your major initiatives has become a major discussion point right now, from 20 years later. That's the effort to privatize Social Security. Congressman Pappas has said he's going to run on this against you if you are the matchup in November. If your position has changed, how so? And explain what's gone on.
JOHN SUNUNU: Well, two things. One, it gave younger workers a choice, if they wanted to invest in a retirement plan like the one members of Congress have. It maintained a guaranteed benefit for all retirees, did not reduce that benefit, and, and it didn't make any changes for the youngest workers. Having said that, and it made the system solvent. Now that was 20 years ago.
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SEXTON: But do you still support privatization, though?
SUNUNU: As I said, that was 20 years ago, Adam. And if we had passed that bill, if we had passed that bill, the system would be solvent today, and retirees would have a — most retirees would have a greater benefit than they enjoy today. Okay?

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