Summary

Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley warns that staffing and funding cuts under Elon Musk could cause Social Security payments to halt within 30 to 90 days.

The SSA is reducing its workforce and closing offices, prompting concerns from Democrats, who accuse the Trump administration of trying to dismantle the program.

O’Malley predicts a major political backlash if payments are interrupted.

Meanwhile, leadership changes at SSA have added further instability, with no confirmed commissioner in place.

  • boreengreen@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    Will the ones not recieving their assistance understand why they are not getting it any more?

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        4 hours ago

        It is funny how when Trump took office the first time, riding Obamas economy, he took credit for it. Now with his words he has started the downward trend of the stock market and now it is Bidens fault, Bidens economy.

        As for the people that will be affected by the SS not coming, they will believe what they are told to believe.

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          60 minutes ago

          Those old people homes would suddenly get much further out of reach for many families. Pull up your bootstraps at 84 and go get a job or your going to jail for being homeless.

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            20 minutes ago

            This is exactly the world they want to make.

            Criminalize homelessness and buy up all the property. Own the businesses and you have indentured servants that can never pay off their debt to you. They want us to pay a subscription to live.

            It wouldn’t surprise me to learn they’d bought up all the funeral homes just to fuck you one last time when you die.