DOGE’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says
DOGE’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says
Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse
Summary
Staff at the Social Security Administration (SSA) warn the agency is in “complete, utter chaos” due to drastic budget cuts, office closures, and job losses led by Elon Musk.
Plans to cut 7,000 jobs and centralize operations have disrupted services, with website outages and record backlogs.
Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek backs DOGE’s changes, despite union opposition and legal pushback. Critics say Musk is pushing misinformation to justify dismantling SSA.
With staffing at 50-year lows, experts fear a “death spiral” and potential collapse in service delivery.
Isn't that the point of "doge"?
This is the most powerful anti-Trump message you can deliver.
A lot of Boomers are completely reliant on Social Security to survive. Those folks vote in every election.
Tell any old person you meet that Trump is closing their Social Security office and that Musk is moving all services to online.
This reminds me of Brexit, where a lot of leave voters were farmers who actually had a net-benefit from the subsidies the eu hands out to farmers. Now a big part of the country suffers from bregret, but there is no way to go back in time to change the vote. I'm afraid an anti-Trump message makes as much as a difference to the people in America as bregret does in the UK.
The problem is that many Trump-supporting seniors have been told for all of their adult lives by Conservative media that government is corrupt and wasteful. So when the checks stop coming, they won't blame their team for it, they will ask Trump to double down on the cuts until everything is fixed. They take it as axiomatic that everything wrong with government is due to bloat and waste, and good luck convincing them otherwise.
Maybe, but on 4/5 protests yesterday I saw something interesting.
Typically it is younger people, minorities that are oppressed.
This time majority were white people, vets, seniors (many on walkers or wheelchairs). Actually there was a very small number of minorities. As I understand it is because of ICE and threat of being locked up in prison in El Salvador (not criticizing, this is all understandable as being darker skinned places a target on you for corrupted law enforcement)
Though this gives me hope that actually a large number of seniors actually understand who is responsible.
I dunno. Fucking with trans people, black people, women is cool. Destroying the economy in general is cool. Eradicating education and free lunches is cool. Cozying up to foreign states that are clearly fascist is cool. Sexually assaulting women is cool.
But fucking with old, white people's money is most certainly not cool. It's surprising how quickly a mind is changed when it is finally their turn to suffer. This isn't something many seniors can live without, literally. They rely on social security as their only income source. If social security fails, the Republicans will kill a significant portion of their own voter base.
Yeah exactly. Good luck convincing them this wasn’t some “joe and the ho” plot that they so easily ate when russia spent billions on social media telling that the dems were coming for their money so they could put Krasnov in power to destabilize the west.
With oz planning to cut Medicaid and care, which Republicans are reliant on type 2 diabetes meds
You know what the protests had a ton of?
Boomers. That is a good sign that I heavily anticipated. Boomers need that social security.
But us millennials and gen-zers need to rememember - Boomers used to be far more politically active than we ever were. My parents we active in the 70s and 80s. I've had great aunts and uncles tear gassed. Many arrested, one arrested multiple times (and she has not stopped protesting as she never had kids).
I'm personally bringing out my inner Zelensky - the guy when from comedian body to military body once Russia invaded again. If the old people out there have health events, you can bet your ass we need to save them.
The boomers in my family didn’t do shit. 😅
In fact, they prided themselves on barely passing high school and still making a ‘decent living’.
Take it a step further and add something like: “as a democrat I think it’s great they’re embracing remote options to keep people safe from the ongoing pandemic”
Maybe, but the fact that they are willing to attack this shows is that maybe they didn't think they need their votes anymore. Hopefully we prove them wrong, because it's a scary thought otherwise
Reminder that employers have to pay 6.2% of your income to social security.
Where's the conservatives saying he won't do these things