WASHINGTON, D. C. – In a last hurrah for departing Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the U.S. Senate on Saturday morning approved legislation he authored that will repeal two laws that reduce the Social Security benefits that public employees earn.
Seventy-six senators supported the measure and 20 opposed it. Republican U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Cincinnati – who is about to become Donald Trump’s vice-president – was one of four senators who missed the vote.
Opponents said Brown’s bill would take $200 billion out of Social Security over the next 10 years and hasten the program’s insolvency by six months…