“Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stealing seniors’ hard-earned benefits. It’s already happening, and it’ll get worse if they go through with closing branch offices and cutting staff.” “DOGE is a disaster of incompetence.” That’s how one political scientist responded to Saturday reporting about a Washington state man fighting for his Social Security benefits as U.S. President Donald Trump and the head […]
“Why do you lie so much about Social Security? To get people to lose faith in the system, and then you can give it over to Wall Street,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders warned late Monday that billionaire Elon Musk’s new call for up to $700 billion in cuts to mandatory federal spending […]
What is being described as a “total annihilation” of SSA, say critics, proves that Trump’s promises to protect Social Security “are a sham.” The Social Security Administration, now under the control of an official installed by U.S. President Donald Trump, began the process of gutting whole segments of the agency and firing a huge portion of […]
“This is nothing more than a backdoor benefit cut and an insult to Americans who have paid into the system and earned their Social Security—all to pay for trillions in new tax cuts for the wealthy,” said Democratic Rep. John Larson. The acting leader of the Social Security Administration reportedly instructed managers earlier this week […]