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sop

(13,393 posts)
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 07:13 PM Mar 16

'As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs'

"Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stealing seniors' hard-earned benefits. It's already happening, and it'll get worse if they go through with closing branch offices and cutting staff."

"DOGE is a disaster of incompetence...That's how one political scientist responded to Saturday reporting about a Washington state man fighting for his Social Security benefits as U.S. President Donald Trump and the head of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), billionaire Elon Musk, attack the federal bureaucracy, including the agency that administers payements to seniors like Leonard 'Ned' Johnson."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-benefits

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'As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs' (Original Post) sop Mar 16 OP
Anyone who gets their benefit late or not at all needs to bombard their congressional delegation with hlthe2b Mar 16 #1
Can't be true gab13by13 Mar 16 #2
Sheldon Whitehouse: "Here's how I think the Social Security attack plan works:" red dog 1 Mar 16 #3

hlthe2b

(108,906 posts)
1. Anyone who gets their benefit late or not at all needs to bombard their congressional delegation with
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 07:21 PM
Mar 16

phone calls, certified letters, and emails, and contact your local tv media as well. The latter will also follow up with the state delegation responsible for your voting district.

Let the pressure build...

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