“Their playbook is clearly to break Social Security so they can justify further cuts and privatization,” one labor leader warned. Defenders of the Social Security Administration sounded the alarm on Tuesday after U.S. Senate Republicans banded together to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal agency, former financial services executive Frank Bisignano. The […]
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies from ripping taxpayers off for services that should be free.” On the heels of Tax Day in the United States, The Associated Pressreported Wednesday that the Trump administration plans to end Direct File, a free electronic program for filing tax […]
“Now is the time for Congress to stand against unjustified attacks against FEMA and reject senseless cuts that will leave communities defenseless when a catastrophic disaster hits.” Over 40 organizations on Monday collectively rejected the Trump administration’s threats to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and called on Congress to defend FEMA, which helps state, […]
“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 […]