The Social Security Trust Funds and the Federal Budget Since the assets in the Social Security trust funds consists of Treasury securities, this means that the taxes collected under the Social Security payroll tax are in effect being LENT (STOLEN YOU MEAN) to the federal government to be expended for whatever present purposes (ILLEGALS) the government requires. In this indirect sense, one could say that the Social Security trust funds are being spent for non-Social Security purposes. However, all this really means is that the trust funds hold their assets in the form of Treasury securities. https://www.ssa.gov/history/BudgetTreatment.html I love how leftists LIE about their screwing over of taxpaying citizens. LENT also means that it's more MASSIVE DEBT (deficit) handed to citizens and also that congress will NEVER pay up. Our social security has ended up as MASSIVE DEBT to American citizens because the leftist whores in congress SPEND EVERY CENT the second they receive them. There is NO social security "trust"fund, the democrats SPENT it.  The taxpayers are left holding a stack of their WORTHLESS PAPER TREASURY NOTES (massive debt) also known as IOU (hard-working taxpaying schmucks).