The Social Security Administration today announced the termination of their Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) cooperative agreements. This action supports the President's Executive Order, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.
“Terminating our RDRC cooperative agreements aligns with President Trump's priorities to end fraudulent and wasteful initiatives and contracts,” said Social Security's Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek. “We will continue to root out waste and abuse to earn back America's trust and confidence in our agency.”
Social Security previously entered into RDRC cooperative agreements with research centers that included a focus on research addressing DEI in Social Security, retirement, and disability policy. Terminating these cooperative agreements results in about $15 million dollars in cost savings for hardworking Americans in fiscal year 2025.
My recollection is that money has been specifically appropriated for external research. If so,this would be an example of Presidential impoundment, a very dubious legal theory. I believe this hurts Boston College and the University of Michigan the hardest.
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The leopards' mouths are watering for Dudek. I hope it's well publicized when they pounce.
Who cares how dubious his claimed authority is? The laws don’t apply to Trump and his administration as long as the other two branches of government continue to abdicate their coequal power. Welcome to life in a s***-hole second-rate fascist state.
"...a focus on research addressing DEI in Social Security, retirement, and disability policy"
I'm not fond of Trump but he's right on this. What a waste of taxpayer money this was, divisive, and most Americans would likely say DEI is not necessary at all.
Equal opportunity is the ticket, not forced outcomes based upon racial quotas.
Yeah. DEI sounds really horrid and odious if you ignorantly believe it involves using racial quotas and all the other lies you hear from Trump and Fox News. Those of us who aren’t incapable of thinking critically and independently realize this whole outrage is nothing more than racism and white fragility fed by the deep realization of Trump and his ilk that they’re too lazy and unintelligent to compete against most of society on equal footing.
Lee Dudek - what a stooge
Godspeed Lee Dudek! Finally this deep state is being slowly but surely dismantled! You know you’re doing the right thing because the hyenas are upset and howling! Let’s go!
DEI was just an excuse to terminate these programs. SSA has been conducting invaluable social security research that has nothing to do with DEI for decades, and the RDRC was a part of that.
The current administration views knowledge and expertise with outright contempt. The philistines are in charge.
Rdrc certainly had some equity-focused research but it wasn't all that...a lot of it looked at how to get people on disability back to work, how to make more accurate solvency projections, etc. But people get more excited about a 0.1% cut from SSA's admin budget if it mentioned dei
The DEI excuse for terminating the RDRC is unsurprisingly... a lie.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n1/v80n1p1.html
I don't know what this leopard stuff means. Reorganizations are common under any incoming administration, but as a citizen I expect the Executive branch to be more than an axe or chainsaw. There is actually a Constitutional way to do this, but it involves Congress and the Executive has blatantly overstepped beyond this issue. The first duty of any President is to uphold the laws and FAITHFULLY execute those laws. Unitary Executive theory be dammed. This POTUS is bent upon speed and chaos to crush the so-called deep state, but it is obvious that tyranny is rising. I am not an attorney, but I sense a tsunami of legal work coming to resist (at least I hope so). SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
If they’re trying to root out corruption and fraud, then why are they dissolving the public corruption unit at DOJ, firing the IGs and others who fight fraud by government contractors (which makes fraud by internal government employees look like stealing pennies from a gumball machine), and fighting in court to destroy the False Claims Act?
I‘ll take your lack of a complete answer as an admission of your ignorance and MAGA brainwashing. And yes, I am that confident of your ignorance.
At least he gets his picture put up in the hall way of Commissioners in the Altmeyer Building (or did they do away with that when it was renovated?)
good source...
15:19 the speed with which this change needs to be done is importantly because the existing bureaucracy thwarts actions under the ruse of process. Delays abound and the. You’ve lost 6 months or a year and nothing has changed. Happens every time any changes need to be done.
So this time it’s imperative that there is rapid changes made to the org and unfortunately there may be collateral damage but there’s really no way around it.
As an example - DOGE has READ only access and they have it NOW so analytics on the data can be conducted. Not 3 or 6 months from now while bureaucrats slow-rolled the request for access.
I realize that many of you will flame-throw on this sentiment but that’s the reality of SSA bureaucracy - all processes are meant to slow things down from OGC to DCO to OARO or ORDP and the list goes on.
That hallway of Commissioners is virtual now and Dudek isn't on it, yet.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/commiss.html
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