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Thursday, March 20, 2025

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.

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"And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them, predicting constituents will grow frustrated if it becomes more difficult and time-consuming to address problems related to benefit claims.

"It doesn't help the president when you have somebody who clearly is not worried about whether or not Social Security benefits are going to be there for him" leading the effort to shrink the Social Security Administration, said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), referring to Musk, the world's richest person."

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"Ross K. Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, said Musk's statements about Social Security are becoming a political liability for Republicans.

"Going after the United States Institute of Peace is one thing, going after Social Security is something entirely different. It's really poking a stick into a hornet's nest," he said.

"The ironies of a person of such immense wealth targeting a program that provides a modest benefit to ordinary people as the worst possible aura about it," he said."

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Well see, the thing is... people who aren't planning on having more elections for Pres aren't really all that concerned about what the People think.

Since money became speech, billionaires and big Corps are in charge and can do whatever they damn well please.

Like kill the Western Alliance for Russia, and Privatize Social Sec. Expect any other Parties to be illegal in a few years. Werks for Vlad.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-20 03:09 PM | Reply

"Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security"

Mmmm, That's Good First Amendment!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 03:16 PM | Reply

"And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them"

Well yeah.

Tens of millions of Republicans are dependent on Government Handouts.

Are there any Trump voters here who don't get a government check? Any at all.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 03:23 PM | Reply

lol they still think elections will be valid from here on out.

How cute.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-21 10:22 AM | Reply

"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.
www.mediaite.com

Background:

Trump's Social Security chief rejects Latimer/Lawler effort to keep WP Hearing Office open

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.

westfaironline.com

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-21 10:36 AM | Reply

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