“Elon and his all-male team lie about Social Security like other people chew gum,” said one former head of the agency. Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, was berated anew Friday after insidiously tarring millions of Social Security recipients as “fraudsters”—a tactic critics called part of an orchestrated […]
“We are seeing the rise of an oligarchy… And yet here we are talking about dismantling the estate tax, the one tax at the federal level that actually slows this concentration of wealth and power,” said one expert. Americans for Tax Fairness has crunched the numbers and found that a Republican push to do away […]
“Social Security needs a commissioner whose loyalty is to beneficiaries, not Elon Musk,” said one advocate. As Democrats on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee grilled financial services executive Frank Bisignano at his confirmation hearing to oversee Social Security on Tuesday, a progressive think tank reported that the Trump administration’s cuts to the popular program have […]
President of the American Postal Workers Union says any effort by the Trump administration to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors “is unlawful and only makes clear their goal of breaking up and selling off the Postal Service to private corporations.” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy officially left office on Monday, but defenders of the U.S. […]