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Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, suggested on a podcast this week that missing Social Security checks aren’t a big deal, and that only a “fraudster” would actually complain if their monthly benefit didn’t come in the mail. “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month,” …

I once took refuge from my political day job by attending laugh-filled game nights at the home of a person now firing tens of thousands of federal workers. For Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s right-hand man at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), life has always been a game. A …

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to restructure the Social Security Administration’s phone support services in a move that could force millions of seniors to require in-person services from the already understaffed agency. According to a leaked memo obtained by Popular Information and later reported by …

At 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7, Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a change in policy that could easily bankrupt some of the program’s senior beneficiaries. The agency will now revert back to a more punishing policy that some Republican members of Congress previously publicly opposed — a …

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants massive cuts to America’s core safety-net programs. “Reports don’t mean anything, you’ve got to actually take action,” Musk said in an interview today on Fox Business Network, explaining that his goal …

Under the guise of efficiency, Donald Trump’s administration is dismantling the agency that runs Social Security, threatening benefits that keep millions of Americans out of poverty and setting up a political gamble for the White House and congressional Republicans. Social Security Administration (SSA) insiders and its former commissioner, Martin O’Malley, …

Donald Trump’s administration — which is, in partnership with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, waging a sweeping, shambolic crackdown on the federal workforce — is now ordering employees to stop reading the news on their office computers. In an email today titled “Internet Browsing from Government Equipment,” which …

Former Maryland Gov. and Social Security chief Martin O’Malley is warning that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on the agency could result in a “system collapse and an interruption of benefits” for Social Security recipients. In a weekend interview with CNBC, O’Malley, who headed the Social Security Administration (SSA) …

Poor, disabled, and vulnerable Americans who rely on Social Security to survive now have fewer resources to access those benefits thanks to cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. The cuts — made to the already-understaffed Social Security Administration (SSA) — will make it harder for some Americans to obtain …

A veteran Social Security Administration official resigned after a dispute with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to access the personal data of Social Security recipients. Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King stepped down from her post this weekend after refusing to provide representatives from …