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Thanks. You, Mr. Frost, thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Hello. Thank you so much for for being
here today. You know, when I was back home
and in the District over the weekend, everywhere I went to
grocery store, walking around the park, doing anything, people
were coming up to me asking about Social Security.
And I think a lot of people are worried and scared right now.
I think part of it has to do with a lot of the myths and
disinformation that's going around.
I mean, we've heard this constant lie from Elon Musk that
10s of millions of dead people are getting Social Security
paychecks. Claiming fraud.
And Social Security, I think is one way that folks are going to
justify cutting it, pocketing the benefits for billionaires,
privatizing it. Miss Kosilek, Elon Musk is now
calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
How concerned are you that Social Security is a Ponzi
scheme? I don't think we have seen
indications in our work that that is the case.
Musk is calling it a Ponzi scheme as an excuse to destroy
it. In my opinion, Americans earn
Social Security, three years of hard work, and it's a good
investment. It could be a better investment
for Black men because we're pretty much donors because we
live less time. But that's another conversation
for another time. It's one of the most popular
government services. And most people support more
funding for Social Security, not less.
Miss Wagner, You know, people want shorter wait times,
payments processed more quickly. But at the same time, the
administration wants to cut 7000 employees from the
administration. Yesterday somebody from my
office called Social Security 30 days to process something on
retirement, 30 days on Medicaid, 230 days as it relates to
disability. What would be the effects of
these cuts to the Social Security Administration right
now? When staff shrinks, there are
fewer people to take appointments to answer phones,
to process applications for different benefits and that
hurts people nationwide. And in addition to their own
staff, Social Security Administration funds state
Disability Determination Service employees who decide whether
applicants disabilities are severe enough to qualify for
benefits. Their processing time was
already at a record high of seven months and we expect cuts
will have further impact. In addition, 7 in 10 of Social
Security staff do serve the public directly.
So this will have a major impact on customer service.
Thank you. It's and it's not just, you
know, billionaires like Elon Musk who are going around
attacking it. My own Florida Senator Rick
Scott, the richest person in Congress, which are the topic of
fraud. You know, my senator made
history. He's the man responsible for the
largest Medicare fraud in the history of this country, $1.7
billion. He says that Republicans are
going to have to cut Social Security and quote, why are they
doing this? Well, to take money from Social
Security to use it for tax cuts for people who are too rich to
need it. House Republicans plan to make
$880 billion in cuts to health care.
This means cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, too.
Miss Wagner, Four and eight American children are Medicaid
recipients, including over 60,000 people in my district
alone. For an Orlando family currently
receiving Medicaid, what could be the financial fallout from
losing access to Medicaid? Well, first, when states are
forced to cut back on funding, they are going to cut back on
who's eligible and the benefits they receive.
But cuts will have broader impacts than just those who are
no longer eligible. They will directly or indirectly
affect the amount of funds available for state staff, for
IT systems that support Medicaid.
And they'll probably lead to more improper payments and
reduce program integrity. And it will impact people who
even whose eligibility isn't cut longer call center wait times,
more errors, uncertainty, stress, and possibly not be able
to get approved for benefits or losing coverage at renewal even
though they remain eligible. Thank you.
You know, before coming to Congress, I worked in
organizations and one of the proudest things I did was work
at March for Our Lives. They came after the shooting
that happened in Parkland. I traveled this country speaking
with people that disagreed with me on the issue of gun violence,
but it made me a better person. And something I learned during
my travels is in order to speak about something in a bipartisan
way, I think it's really important to make sure people
are coming at this on the right foot in good faith.
And I'm all for the modernization of our government.
I think it's really important. And I say that's the youngest
person in the United States Congress.
I think it is very important, but when I see the people
leading the effort like Elon Musk call something like Social
Security a Ponzi scheme and I hear crickets on the other side
of the aisle, I have a really hard time taking any of this
seriously. When I go home and I have people
coming up to be. In the grocery store.
Who are living? Paycheck to paycheck asking me.
What are you going to do to? Protect Social Security.
So thank you so much and I yield back.
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