There is simply no fat to cut at Social Security: every cut is cutting into bone. Trump has already announced a 12% cut and DOGE is calling for more cuts.
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It is one of the most effective agencies in the federal government, operating since its inception at or below 2.2% overhead. There is nothing to cut. It is a piggy bank that the GOP has spent decades on figuring out how to take a hammer to it & now they have.
Read this: how is it not a national scandal that the head of SSA withheld services from Maine because the Governor disagreed with Trump about trans rights?
It is. In any other administration, it would be the worst scandal and would require hearings, the resignation of the head of the program and most of his senior staff, and probably impeachment. In this administration, it probably wasn't the most scandalous thing *that day*.
It’s not a national scandal yet that unelected tots are still eviscerating the government. Trump is charging $1 million a plate to hang out with him at a dinner and nobody is clutching their pearls. Like others, the SSA guy is just leaning toward the dictator. 😱
DOGE is overwhelming the system: "We’re just spiking like crazy" said an SSA official. "It’s people who are terrified that DOGE is messing with our systems. It’s the sheer massive volume of freaked-out people."
New and untested anti-fraud measures are also triggering SSA website crashes per WaPo:
Ah yes, the "let the customers debug our new system" approach to system development. It always makes for happy clients. But who cares when you're the only game in town. Encapsulates every shitty aspect of the tech bros mentality.
Also not appreciated is that the panic is likely increasing the number of people taking their social security at 62 instead of waiting, meaning they'll be paying out to more people than they likely planned for.
And the chaos, instability, and intent to create worries & anxiety, amidst willful acts to disrupt service delivery, are the means, by which the authoritarian regime corrupts representative governance, and seizes our democracy, strangling it.
Reporting on these subversive tactics, highlighting the corrupt intent, raises awareness, educates & engages the public. More, more, more. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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Just the APPEARANCE of it.
Innocent times.
I hate them so much.
someone said that republicans are the Uvalde mass shooter and dems are the Uvalde cops and that comparison is more and more real daily
New and untested anti-fraud measures are also triggering SSA website crashes per WaPo:
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