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Sun Mar 16, 2025, 07:13 PM Mar 16

'As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs' [View all]

"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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