Dear Friend,

Welcome back to my Week in Review newsletter. In addition to these weekly updates, you can sign up to receive other issue-specific newsletters here. Also, please remember to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube for regular updates on how I am serving the people of South Carolina!  

Protecting Communities

While liberal elites have pushed to defund the police, our poorest neighborhoods—much like the one in which I grew up—have paid the price. Take it from me: Folks in those communities don’t want to defund the police—they actually want to refund the police. Thankfully, that’s exactly what’s happening in places like Baltimore, where police budgets are increasing again after a year of violence and crime. I spoke about all of this and more during a U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing.

Click to watch me speak on the “defund the police” movement

Expanding Credit Access

This week, the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee also held a hearing on our nation’s financial system and current regulation. I spoke on an issue very important to me—credit access. Nearly 1 in 5 South Carolinians is “credit invisible,” meaning they lack credit scores because they have little or no history of traditional payments like mortgages or credit card loans. This has left them locked out of major financial options, despite the fact that many who are credit invisible are also credit worthy. My Credit Access and Inclusion Act would bridge that gap and open doors to economic opportunity for individuals across the nation.

Click to watch my questions at the hearing

Working for Older Americans

As the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Aging Committee, I am always working to ensure the American Dream does not stop for our older population. In pursuit of that goal, this past month, I …

• Introduced the Golden-preneurship Act to equip older entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams;
• Called for improved efforts to combat fraud in Medicaid’s Home and Community Based Services;
• Wrote to President Biden, asking he reinstate Andrew Saul as Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner, as SSA helps millions of older Americans with basic expenses;
• And urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to focus on protecting older Americans throughout the upcoming flu season.

Be sure to read about all of this and more in my most recent Aging Action Report.

Click to view the latest action report!

Sincerely,