DOGE puts wrecking ball through department 73m Americans depend on

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : At a March confirmation hearing for Trump's nominee to head Social Security, Senator Steve Daines (R-Montana) played recordings of the agency's interminable hold music to underscore constituent frustration.
57% : 'For much of the country, Washington might as well be Mars for all the connection it has to them,' said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the committee overseeing Social Security.
55% : 'But Social Security is something where there is connective tissue between the government and the people.' The Democratic push appears to be gaining traction.
54% : In the past, voters of every age and political affiliation have long considered Social Security to be an untouchable entitlement program.
53% : 'I've never hoped I was wrong so much in my life.'
52% : A Gallup poll earlier this month found public anxiety about the future of Social Security at a 15-year high, with more than three-quarters of Americans expressing deep concern about the system's stability.
50% : It is one of the largest and most relied-upon safety nets in the US and a financial lifeline for over 73 million Americans - but under the wrecking ball of DOGE, Social Security is now buckling under the weight of brutal staffing cuts.
47% : According to projections from the Congressional Budget Office two of the funds will be drained by 2035 while another major fund will be gone by 2048 Social Security spending has been on the rise as more Americans hit retirement age and leave the workforce, solely relying on the fund's benefits 'Because the public program is so broadly supported by Americans across the political system, they can't really rob it until they wreck it,' O'Malley warned.
45% : Under the wrecking ball of Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Social Security Administration is now buckling under the weight of brutal staffing cuts Social Security is is one of the largest and most relied-upon safety nets in the United States and the financial lifeline for over 73 million Americans 'People on Social Security are elderly.
45% : The controversy has exposed deep philosophical divides over the future of Social Security.
43% : Across the country, Democrats are staging town halls, flooding social media, and releasing targeted ads hammering Republican senators like Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) for what they call complicity in the dismantling of Social Security.
42% : This is sabotage.' Musk, the world's richest man with a $374 billion fortune, has called Social Security 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,' and has long made clear his disdain for the very idea of a government safety net.
26% : Former President Joe Biden, in his first public comments since leaving office, unleashed a blistering attack on Trump and Musk for their handling of the program, accusing the administration of causing 'so much damage' through what he called an attempt to 'cut and gut' one of America's most beloved institutions.
21% : After months of struggling to craft a political message that resonates while Trump dominates the headlines, Democrats are seizing on the Social Security disaster as their rallying cry.
19% : 'I think you have a group of very immature people coming out of Silicon Valley bro culture, and they have decided federal agencies are filled with bad people doing bad things, and if you go in and hack away - and you don't have to know what you are doing - you can improve it because less is more,' said Michael Astrue, who served as Social Security Commissioner under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, in an interview with The Washington Post.
19% : There are plenty of Americans who are unhappy at the work being conduct by Musk and Trump Demonstrators protest against cuts.
19% : Since taking office in January, Trump has launched a campaign led by Elon Musk to unilaterally, downsize or dismantle swaths of the US government A group of demonstrators gather in front of the Social Security administration building to protest Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Washington DC earlier this month The Musk-Trump cuts have already led to catastrophic errors, including the misclassification of over four million living Social Security recipients as deceased More than 72.5 million Americans rely on the program which include retirees and children who receive retirement and disability benefits Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) pulled no punches at the launch of the Senate Democrats' Social Security 'war room'.
17% : While audits consistently find less than 1 percent of benefits are paid improperly, Musk and Trump have repeatedly suggested massive fraud, including the widely debunked claim that millions of checks are going to people aged 100 or older.
4% : White House spokeswoman Liz Huston insisted that Trump remains committed to protecting Social Security benefits, dismissing Democratic criticism as 'fake concern' and accusing them of caring 'more about illegal immigrants than their own constituents.' 'President Trump will fiercely protect Social Security, eliminate unfair benefit taxes to boost seniors' take-home pay, and drive the Social Security Administration to modernize systems, enhance customer service, and combat fraud,' Huston said.

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