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Stick with worry at the risk of fraudsters having their Social
Security numbers, banking information, and other personal
information shared with Musk cronies who've invaded the
Social Security Administration. So let's be clear.
President Trump and Elon Musk have launched a public campaign
against Social Security. Mr. Musk is calling Social
Security a Ponzi scheme, and both he and President Trump are
spreading widely discredited lies about the program and its
integrity. But the facts don't add up.
Let me read just a few of the countless news headlines
debunking their false claims. The Associated Press says 10s of
millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks
despite Trump and Musk claims. ABC News says Musk misreads
Social Security data Millions of dead people are not getting
benefits, experts say. CBS News says news Social
Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years
get 100 years old getting checks The Washington Post says Elon
Musk claims of Social Security fraud don't hold up, and here's
why. And The New York Times says
millions of dead people on Social Security.
The agency's own data says otherwise, and in fact, the
claims by Elon Musk are based on complete misunderstanding of
Social Security's data systems, which often lack complete birth
and death information for people born before 1920, before Social
Security was established and long before electronic records
were kept. A 2023 Inspector General report
said that almost none of these people born before 1920 with
misinformation are paid benefits.
But my constituents are also worried.
Worried because the Trump administration is taking a
Wrecking Ball to the Social Security Administration.
Far from making the agency more efficient, they are undermining
its ability to serve the public. And why are they trying to
destroy the Social Security Administration?
It's the first step of a long standing effort by Republicans
to dismantle trust in Social Security and slash benefits.
The Trump administration wants to close Social Security offices
across the nation and slash the agency's workforce by nearly one
in eight employees. Social Security Administration
This administration is already at A50 year staffing low due to
years of underfunding, and it's serving more beneficiaries than
ever. How will gutting its workforce
help it to serve the American people?
While the answer is that it doesn't, and in fact, it's very
likely a move to undermine confidence so that the Trump
administration can privatize it. And with that I yield back.
Memory yields back. I now recognize Miss Moore for 5
minutes to strike the last quarter.
Thank you so very, very much, Mr. Chairman and and Ranking
Member and Members, I am reminded of what Maya Angelou
said when she said, she said when someone shows you who they
are, believe them the first time.
And then, of course, Rachel Maddow, who is a news
commentator on MSNBC often says you need to watch what people do
and not what they say. And I think that that's those
are very helpful admonitions in view of this discussion here
today. We have our Republican
colleagues swearing that Donald Trump will not do anything to
Social Security. And, you know, from your lips to
guys ears, let's hope, you know, I'm on your side.
I'm hoping that you're right. But we have known that
Republicans have long wanted to destroy Social Security and
really privatize it. As a matter of fact, former
chair of this committee, my good friend Paul Ryan from Wisconsin,
openly tried to privatize Social Security.
My own Senator Johnson was the first person I ever heard call
it a Ponzi scheme long before, before Elon Musk was on the
scene. And Mick Mulvaney during the
Trump One administration who was a former chief of staff,
testified before the Joint Economic Committee that, yes, we
need to go after Social Security because just like Jesse James
robbed banks because that's where the money is.
And so I am, you know, I'm not convinced that that they're not
going to do it. Musk has just basically said we
need to go after entitlement spending, which he designates
the Social Security and Medicare.
So I think that it's important for that our Republican friends
not to be willfully ignorant, to be useful idiots about this, you
know, And so, so that's what they say.
What? But what are they doing?
Let's look at that. This this CR that we passed just
yesterday. In order to flat fund the
operations of the Social Security Administration, we
would have had to have added $600 million instead of adding
the $600.00 just to flat fund the agency that cut it by an
additional 100 million. That's $700 million.
Watch what they do. You know, you're trying to save
Social Security, but you want to destroy customer service.
We heard of Mr. Estes, the new chairman of the subcommittee,
talk about how awful the customer service is.
Well, yeah, but that is part of the scheme to undermine Social
Security to the point that people lose faith in it.
As a matter of fact, Martin O'Neill Malley sent me this
text. He says they just want to wreck
it so they can rob it. And now with this CR and the
mass firings taking place of Social Security as we speak,
they are destroying customer service for the American people,
driving this agency to collapse and putting at grave and serious
risk the monthly benefits of 72 million Americans as the former
commissioner of Social Security, Martin O'Malley.
And then the President Trump tells us that he's going to cut
taxes on Social Security. Well, that really sounds great.
Send people, I heard $5000 checks.
That really sounds great. And that of course, would help
people making twenty, $30,000 immediately.
But in the long run, they would be hurt the most and wealthy
people would be helped the most. But in the meantime, it would
cost the trust fund $1.5 trillion to do that.
You know, watch what they do, not what they say.
That would undermine Social Security tremendously.
The Social Security payment accuracy is about 99 point 8.8%
so I don't know how much of waste, fraud and abuse can be
found in it. This really the last point that
I want to make is that Elon Musk is a tech tycoon and I wondered
what the value of this data is to him.
It's immeasurable. So this is a serious conflict of
interest for this man to have Social Security data when he is
a tech tycoon. Numbers time has expired.
Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, for your indulgence, and I yield
back. I recognize Mr. Boyle.
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