Despite Trump’s Promises Not to Touch Social Security, Elon Musk’s Doge has Asked For Serious Cuts to the Agency. Critics have accuced the billionaire and his team of attempting to cripple America’s retirement system. Now, a new report states that, per doge’s orders, the social security administration has plans to fire “potentially thirds” of staffers as soon Agency and align it with Trump’s “Efficiency” Mandate.
The washington post Reports that Musk’s “Government Efficiency” Team has Demanded An Extensive Reduction of Workforce through the Agency. The newspaper describes the effort thusly:
The cuts have been ordered by leaders of elon musk’s cost-cutting team, the us dog service, which reviewed the agency’s plans to shrink its workforce last week, According to Four Agncy Officials Familiar with the conversations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans. Doge determined that 7,000 jobs eliminated since februry under acting commissioner leland dudek through early retirements, buyouts, resignations and firings were not eN 4. The Doge Team, which has Amassed Unprecedented Power through the federal government, have demanded significantly deeper cuts to enSure that social seconds president donald traump’s Goal to Shrink Federal agencies, officials said.
According to the newspaper, the cuts being deemanded by dog are across the board. It Writes:
The dog team did not provide a specific number of jobs that must be eliminated, officials said, but asked for staff reductions to broad areas of operation, Including communications, Personnel, Personnel, Personnel, Personnel, Personnel, Personnel Congress, retirement and disability policy, and other “Support components.”
Among other things, dog has been asked for severe cuts to the administration’s it team, the report states. That team is presummable alredy under a severe Amount of strain due to the agency’s recent decision to Downsize its phone operations—A highly controversial move that has forced an influx of traffic to the ssa website. The strain of that traffic has reportedly caused the website to crash multiple times. A Senior Department Official Told The Post That As Many as 800 People BE Laid off from the it team, which currently has about 4,000 members.
Dog has alredy Announced lease terminations For dozens of SSA Field Office Across the Country. This policy threatens recretes’ ability to get in-veson help when signing up for retirement benefits. Under Doge, The SSA has also cut phone operations, and now, will also apparently cut web operations. At the same time, dog has claimd that it will re-wild the ssa’s “Entre Codebase” in a matter of months, a move that critics worry would lead to serial digital dysfunction. Social Security Activists Say it’s pretty clear that Doge’s Ultimate Goal is to Hobble The Agency’s Operations and Destroy Its Ability to Function.
When reacted for comment by gizmodo, a white house spokesperson told us this: “With a resound mandate from the american people, presiding trump is moving Quickly to Fulfill His Promise of Making The Federal Government More Efficiency. While failing to dispute Anything Specific in the post report, The Government Further Stated that there are currently no finalized rif (Reduction in workforce) plans and that ssa was merely evaluation the next Steps.
If the trump administration manages to criple america’s social security system while also yanking trillions of dollars of dollars out of Americans ‘401ks’ 401ks via an Ill-Advised, Stock-Market-Killing Trade Warling Warling Warling War, will have effectively nullified the entry concept of “retirement” for the forestable future.