Rep. David Schweikert, a U.S. Congressman representing Arizona’s 1st district since 2011, has recently addressed issues related to Medicare Advantage overpayments, student loan debt, and the sustainability of Social Security in a series of posts on his social media account.
On February 16, 2026, Schweikert commented on federal health spending: “Politicians scream at each other over scraps while Medicare Advantage spits out $84B in overpayments in a single year. That’s almost $1T in misaligned incentives we could fix in one reconciliation bill that pays for real health, not for coding seniors as sicker.”
Addressing the issue of student loans on February 17, 2026, Schweikert wrote: “I still have grad school loans from 2004. I signed, I pay. I’m not sticking that bill on the waitress who never got to go to college. Start by making universities eat the cost when they load kids up with debt and never get them to graduation.”
Later that same day, he raised concerns about Social Security’s future: “In about six and a half years the Social Security trust fund hits zero. It was never a vault. It is a pay-as-you-go promise with fewer workers under it every year. Pretending that math is optional is how you end up cutting the very seniors you claim to protect.”
Schweikert has served in Congress since replacing Harry Mitchell in 2011 and previously held office in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. He was born in Los Angeles in 1962 and resides in Fountain Hills. Schweikert holds degrees from Arizona State University (BS in 1988; graduate degree earned in 2005). In recent elections, he won against Amish Shah in 2024 with just over half the vote and narrowly defeated Jevin Hodge in 2022.
