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“Instead of focusing on delivering benefits to seniors and people with disabilities, President Trump and unelected billionaire Elon Musk are systematically dismantling SSA.”
As the Republican-controlled Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday prepared to advance Frank Bisignano, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for Social Security Administration commissioner, a report from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that the number of people who will die waiting for benefits could more than double under a plan by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to slash SSA staffing by up to 50%.
“Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history. For more than 86 years, through good times and bad, Social Security has paid out every benefit owed to every eligible American on time and without delay,” states the report from Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member on the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy.
Noting that “Social Security lifts roughly 27 million Americans […]
I really don’t blame the voters for this. We have a corrupt two party system which permits very restricted choice. The population is allowed to choose between the Democratic party Oligarchs or the Republican party Oligarchs. What we need is a multiparty democracy where the voters can pick their own candidates for themselves instead of those just vetted by the elites. Think outside the box.
@Albus Eddie—that’s exact, but it will never happen due to the entrenched system that you so aptly described. Third-party candidates have never survived.
Ralph Nader, Ross Perot.
The system is rigged.
I know you are always thinking outside the fricking box but there was an effort under the non maga administration to make the this bureaucracy serve the people. I am so angry about this intentional cruelty that I can do nothing about thanks to those that voted against the two parties.
We should have voted for Bernie Sanders for president a long time ago!
I agree. When he ran I was a Washington State delegate.