Summary
Senator Bernie Sanders warns that Elon Musk’s plan to cut Social Security Administration staff by up to 50% could cause 37,000 additional deaths yearly among disability benefit applicants and extend average wait times to 412 days.
While the SSA clarified they’re targeting a reduction from 57,000 to 50,000 employees (not 50%, or 300,000), Republican leaders like Mike Johnson and Rick Scott have discussed “reforming” entitlement programs for long-term solvency.
This contrasts with Trump’s assurance that “Social Security won’t be touched.” Democrats argue staffing cuts effectively reduce benefits by limiting access and delaying payments for vulnerable Americans.
I think this thread is a good example of how one troll comment can derail the whole conversation.
Obvious trolls like them need to be banned.
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That’s not how they’re doing it. They’re just slashing anything they don’t understand, entire departments. There are many interdependent systems and each uncalibrated attack brings them closer to failure/disruption.
There is no careful analysis about “people not doing their jobs” going on here.
Very much this. DOGE and Musk have taken zero time to try and understand what any of these programs they are cutting do or how they operate. They are under the impression that much of the important work can “be simply automated” via LLM’s or some nonsense.
They truly are the chainsaw, not the scalpel.
Stop engaging with trolls
If that was the goal, would hiring forensic accounts instead of 19 year old sycophants be more effective?
You truly believe that they’re actually doing what they say they’re doing even though they’ve lied through their teeth at every fucking step?
They’ve literally been counting on people being this goddamn gullible. My god.
They ARE the fraud.
We both know that what you’re describing is not how it will be handled. There is no nuance or care being used here.
They have no clue what they’re doing. Does this seem like efficiency? Is this what you want?
How fucking blind and/or stupid do you need to be to believe that this is what is actually happening?
Totally they meant to fire those nuclear specialists and people working on flu vaccine that they immediately had to re-hire in desparation.
Yea that’s not what your filthy fucking fuhrer is doing.
they are not cutting any fraud. the US already has an independent, non-partisan accountability office that actually investigates spending, instead of cutting random items based on the name without any analysis or understanding like musk is doing. and the executive power (including any stupidly named agency within in) has no power to change the budget set by congress. it is literally unconstitutional.
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Land of the free, patriots of the eagle, when my side does anything, it’s totally leagle
