The President COULD be messing with Political Dynamite ….
Past effort to do much of ANYTHING that might stop those checks from arriving on time has resulted in severe political HURT to those lawmakers making the mistake of crossing the recipients …..
BTW?
Trump HAS consistantly told Republican lawmakewrs in Congress to NOT TOUCH Social Security….
Hmmmm?
Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago.
But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley told CNBC.com.
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”
Ahead of any interruption in benefits, “people should start saving now,” O’Malley said.
The Social Security Administration uses multiple systems and technologies that Elon Musk has criticized for leading to errors. As commissioner, O’Malley told Congress the agency needed more funding for IT modernization.
O’Malley said DOGE leaders are now making changes at the agency, and significant staff cuts have already led to system outages. Those intermittent IT outages may happen more frequently and for more extended periods of time until there is a “system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” he said….
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In a recent statement, Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., said the moves are a “backdoor benefit cut.”
“Let me be clear — laying off half of the workforce at the Social Security Administration and shuttering field offices will mean the delay, disruption and denial of benefits,” Larson said.
In a statement to CNBC.com earlier this week, the Social Security Administration said it has not set any reduction targets, in response to reports it plans to cut 50% of its employees.
As a union, AFGE has been issuing bargaining demands in response to the agency’s recent decisions and plans to enforce employee rights through other methods as necessary, spokesperson Couture said.
While many lawsuits have been filed, it will take time to work through them, especially as the courts are now being flooded with cases tied to the Trump administration’s actions, said Nancy Altman, president of advocacy organization Social Security Works.
The biggest results may come from the pressure American voters could put on elected officials, former SSA commissioner O’Malley said.
“I think many people throughout the country are going to start bringing a lot of heat to members of Congress who have been facilitating, supporting, aiding and abetting the breaking of their Social Security and the interruption of benefits that they work their whole lives to earn,” he said. “These are earned benefits.”….
Note…
The word is 7,000 people to be cut at a time when the agency says its staffing is at 50 year LOW…..
…Although the Trump administration has specified that agencies’ restructurings should not negatively affect the delivery of services such as Social Security and Medicare, the overhaul at the Social Security Administration will have an impact on benefits, Jack Smalligan, a senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute and former deputy associate director at the Office of Management and Budget focusing on Social Security issues, wrote on X…
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