Yes it is. We need immigration legislation (no drivers licenses) and overall tax reform, not to mention making tax cuts permanent. THEN they can deadlock.
Where in this whole thing does it say that money will be diverted?
Why don't they just allow people to take up to an additional (n%) of their earnings, pretax and put it into an account?
Then as the years go by, we start paying down when the people that invested in the program start retiring. Eventually everyone becomes invested in the new system and the old welfare system now in place goes away.