When your counterparty is in the red to the tune of more than $17 trillion and unfunded future liabilities of several times that amount, you have no “trust fund” and the assets in it are fraudulent. If you want to prioritize payments out of general revenues, fine, but anyone thinking there is some kind of trust fund worth $4 trillion of investments in it probably shouldn’t be handling their own or anyone else’s affairs.
It’s true that the “Trust Fund” is an accounting fiction, but using the debt ceiling as a reason not to send-out Social Security payments is petulance typical of the guy at 1600 PA Ave; it should be a capital crime.