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Mr. President, yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk confirmed
what many of us have been warning about for a long time.
Republicans are getting ready to gut Social Security and
Medicare. Let me repeat that.
Elon Musk confirmed what many of us have warned about.
Republicans are getting ready to cut Social gut, Social Security
and gut Medicare. Here's what he said during an
interview with Fox Business. The richest man on earth
repeated again a bevy of lies that entitlement programs tends,
that entitlement programs 10s of millions of people rely on are
riddled with fraud and abuse. That's a pretext to slashing
them. But he's it's false, he added.
Most of the federal spending is entitlements.
That's true. So that the big ones to the big
one to eliminate. So that's the big one to
eliminate, meaning Social Security.
Let me quote Elon Musk again. That's the big one, Social
Security to eliminate. It's rare to hear Republicans
tell the truth about their plans.
So directly, what Elon Musk is saying is that sooner or later,
Republicans are going to target people's Social Security and
Medicare benefits. The outrage that the richest man
in the world would tell millions of seniors who depend on those
checks each month that it's fraud, that it's waste, it's
outrageous. He doesn't have any idea the
harm it would do, and it isn't fraud.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans know that the mass
on their billionaire tax cuts will not work without going
after these benefits, and all they care about is cutting their
taxes further. Outrageous.
As America begins to hear this, America is going to realize what
a bad bargain Donald Trump was in the election.
It's another awful reminder that under Donald Trump and Elon Musk
and Republicans, billionaires win, American families lose.
There's something truly rotten about the Republican agenda when
a multi billionaire, the richest man in the world, is allowed to
lie so casually about one of America's most sacred programs
in order to justify taking benefits away from hard working
Americans. Few programs have done more
good, have helped more people, have been more popular than
Social Security has for nearly a century.
Few programs are as beloved by Americans as Social Security.
Americans, of course, support eliminating waste, but they do
not want to see their Social Security benefits get taken
away. How is Elon Musk trying to do
this? He's using the oldest trick in
the book, shamelessly lying about Social Security.
Just as Donald Trump did in his State of the Union address,
where he listed hundreds of people who were born 100 or 20
years ago and couldn't show a single one was getting Social
Security. Musk is shamelessly lying about
Social Security, claiming it's riddled with fraud in order to
justify taking benefits away from seniors and retirees.
He ignores the very bold, plain fact that the federal government
has that already conducts an audit of Social Security every
year. It's a legit audit, not a
partisan audit. It's been done during Trump's
presidency and Biden's presidency.
What did it find? Less than one percent, 1%.
Less than 1% of all payments from 2015 to 2022 were made in
error. That Mister Musk is not what
fraud looks like. He cherry picks data to suggest
that 10s of millions of dead people are getting checks.
This is a lie. And to be sure, this isn't just
about Elon Musk's rhetoric. The assault on Social Security
is taking place in in taking place in taking shape in
practice. Dodge has already taken Dosh has
already taken over the Social Security Administration agency
and his free access to the private data and benefits of 10s
of millions of Americans. The Trump administration has
already begun to fire 7000 staffers, which means local
offices will shut down customer service wait times will explode.
The risk of delayed benefits will skyrocket.
So I asked my Republican colleagues, you all fine with
this? Are they fine with Musk calling
Social Security one giant scam? Let's find a single person here
on the Republican side. It starts rebutting Musk once
and for all when they know he's doing what the American people
hate and is not telling the truth.
Do our colleagues believe, agree with Musk's lie that hundreds of
billions of dollars in outright fraud has compromised Social
Security? Mark my words, if Elon Musk and
Doge continue their attacks against Social Security, if the
president continues his attacks which he made in the State of
the Union, sooner or later benefits are going to be
delayed, mistakenly halted, and the political uproar from
Americans from one end of the country to the other, red,
purple and blue will be immense. Hey.
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