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How Trump is quietly breaking Social Security

JD_co
in Off-Topic
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5489584-trump-musk-gut-social-security/
His strategy is to destroy Social Security quietly from within, while loudly claiming he will never cut it. He has decimated the Social Security Administration’s dedicated workforce. Musk’s underlings in the Department of Government Efficiency have forced out thousands of Social Security staffers, including many in leadership positions. This is a mass involuntary exodus of expertise and institutional knowledge.

Most recently, the Trump administration pushed out Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, a brave whistleblower. Borges sounded the alarm about Musk’s DOGE minions grabbing all of our most sensitive Social Security data for unknown purposes and making it vulnerable to hackers.

....The only reason the system hasn’t already collapsed is that the mission-driven staffers who remain are each doing the work of five people. They are holding Social Security together with shoestrings and chewing gum— but they can’t do it forever.

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  • Mona
    @FD1000

    We look forward to your thoughts regarding the article.
  • JD_co
    Not all of us.
  • larryB
    Why should Social Security be different than every other institution in our country? He has either broken it, is in the process of breaking it or is planning on how to break it. The destruction is just getting started. And it’s only a matter of time until our investments and the economy go down the tubes. But it’s another great week ,,,,,,,,
  • CrashCrash
    larryB said:

    Why should Social Security be different than every other institution in our country? He has either broken it, is in the process of breaking it or is planning on how to break it. The destruction is just getting started. And it’s only a matter of time until our investments and the economy go down the tubes. But it’s another great week ,,,,,,,,

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