Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone.
Musk's statement that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme," and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration's workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn.
They warn that Social Security reform is known as the "third rail" of politics for a reason: Any party that touches it is likely to get zapped come Election Day.
"And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them"
Yes, this is starting to happen. Case in point, Republican Mike Lawler who won in a swing district in NY that Biden also won:
House Republican Outraged by Social Security Office Closing in His District: A Slap in the Face'
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) protested the closing down of the Hudson Valley's only Social Security Hearing Office on Thursday, calling it a "slap in the face" to thousands of New Yorkers.
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Background:
Trump's Social Security chief rejects Latimer/Lawler effort to keep WP Hearing Office openwestfaironline.com
Donald Trump's Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Leland Dudek, has rejected a bipartisan effort by Democratic Congressman George Latimer of the New York 16th Congressional District and Republican Mike Lawler of the 17th Congressional District to keep the Social Security Hearing Office in White Plains open.
In a letter to Latimer dated March 19, Dudek said that the people in Latimer's district who need to go to a hearing office can travel to Lower Manhattan, New Haven in Connecticut, the Bronx or Goshen in Orange County for the Social Security services they are seeking. Dudek told Latimer that he would be telling Lawler the same thing in a separate letter to him.
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