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Elon Musk is coming for your Social Security (thehill.com)

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Your local Social Security office will be closing. Musk has instructed the General Services Administration to terminate all federal office leases, including every Social Security office and every post office.

What is going on should be obvious. Musk wants to cut off your benefits and then have Congress use the savings to give himself a gigantic tax cut. But Social Security is incredibly popular, so he can’t be open about his intentions. Instead, he is trying to convince Americans that our Social Security system is overrun with massive fraud. The truth is the opposite.

Less than 1 percent of Social Security payments are improper. And remember, that already-low percentage includes all the beneficiaries who receive a proper benefit but then die in the same month.

Ironically, the best way to stop improper payments — including those vanishingly few that result from fraud — is to adequately staff the Social Security Administration.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You think they're going to let that fact get in the way of dismantling anything they want gone?

Facts don't matter to them. Legal limitations don't matter to them. The only enforcement system we have remaining here is Congress impeaching and removing from office, and doing that essentially for the entire cabinet going down the line.