About 400,000 California Social Security recipients should be eligible for new Social Security benefits — retroactive to December 2023 — under legislation signed into law this week by President Joe Biden.

Many of the people impacted by the law are teachers, officers and others eligible for others pensions. On the eve of Donald Trump's election certification, the best thing Americans can do is remember that stupidity should be embarrassing.

For the past half-century, union officials representing these groups have been pressuring Congress to eliminate WEP because they wrongly think the law cheats their members out of Social Security benefits they are due. In each of those years, a bill to eliminate WEP has failed to get approved.