A thread of tweets from the Social Security Administration this evening:
Former President Joe Biden [who is expected to make a speech on Social Security this evening] is lying to Americans.
Here are the facts:
1️⃣President Trump has repeatedly promised to protect Social Security and ensure higher-take home pay for seniors by ending taxation on Social Security benefits.
2️⃣The SSA has not permanently closed any field offices and 50% of the technology department has not been laid off.
3️⃣SSA is taking commonsense steps to transform how we serve the public - last month, we spent $16.5 million to modernize telephone services nationwide. We’re developing cutting-edge, AI-powered tools to streamline simple tasks.
4️⃣A SSA Inspector General report released while Joe Biden was President found $72 billion in improper payments from fiscal years 2015 through 2022.
5️⃣Over 2 million illegal aliens were assigned SSNs in fiscal year 2024 alone.
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Apolitical no more:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/preventing-illegal-aliens-from-obtaining-social-security-act-benefits/
This administration does not follow rules and that explains why we have a convicted felon in the White House.
Is there a source for 2 million illegal aliens were assigned SSNs in FY24 “fact”?
#2 if 50% of IT folks have not been laid off, then 50% have been? Half a bee, philosophically, must up so facto half not be.
It looks like they are claiming any SSN issued to a non-citizen through EBE is a case of an “illegal alien … assigned [an] SSN”.
They are ignoring the fact that these SSNs were appropriately issued to people authorized to be enumerated because they had been granted a status that allowed them, at least temporarily, to remain in the United States and work.
Otherwise, who is being charged for improperly issuing SSNs?
distortion and lies
•President Trump has not eliminated taxes on social security.
• The front lines were devastated due to resignations and retirements
• The phone system upgrade was already in process from the previous administration and the new system has not reduced hold times. The SSA needs bodies to do the work.
• Complete nonsense about improper payments (how large were the improper payments during Trump 1.0?)
• President Trump implemented enumeration beyond entry (what is illegal ssn)?
Monty Python?
Leland, why are you hiding?
The Trump administration resisted a judge’s request for the acting head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to testify at a hearing Tuesday, as the court considers the White House’s practice of adding immigrants who are still alive to the agency’s “master death list” as part of its deliberations on whether to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security data.
The court hearing in the Social Security case is taking place Tuesday morning, and it’s unclear how Hollander could rule or if she’ll chastise the government for not having Dudek appear. Her order temporarily blocking DOGE from accessing SSA data is set to expire Thursday, so it’s likely she’ll rule either Tuesday or in the coming days whether to extend that block for the foreseeable future as the litigation plays out.
I would question the factoid about SSNs being assigned to illegal aliens. Perhaps to aliens who were given protected status or who arrived at the border and requested asylum, but they are not illegal. And 2 million in just one fiscal year seems like a very large number. Where's the proof?
We have confirmation that SSA no longer controls its communication and that X is the agency's new press release channel despite its denials.
Trump wants certain earnings reported to SSA's IG...does he know he already fired SSA's IG?
Serious question for the attorneys on this thread. How is that post not a violation of Hatch Act rules. It’s partisan, references political figures and specifically references campaign related and political issues.
Let us begin with some situational context. SSA this week announced that it would move its traditional communications, such as "Dear Colleague" letters, to X, which is an obvious conflict of interest by itself. Now the agency's professional observers must sort through political drivel like this to receive information that is critical to serving the public. ACOSS Dudek decreed today that all staff in its communications office (among many others, some of which have nothing to do with policy) are henceforth Schedule F, and are subject to summary termination if they do not comport with OCOMM's newfound propaganda mission.
Now, let's look at the specific points:
Point 1: President Trump has repeatedly promised to protect Social Security and ensure higher-take home pay for seniors by ending taxation on Social Security benefits.
Analysis: So what? Taxation on Social Security benefits is enshrined in statute. That was not the President's to promise.
Point 2: The SSA has not permanently closed any field offices and 50% of the technology department has not been laid off.
Analysis: SSA is planning massive layoffs to its CIO Office (who are now, by the way, also mostly Schedule F).
Point 3: SSA is taking commonsense steps to transform how we serve the public - last month, we spent $16.5 million to modernize telephone services nationwide. We’re developing cutting-edge, AI-powered tools to streamline simple tasks.
Analysis: This is fundamentally true.
Point 4: SSA Inspector General report released while Joe Biden was President found $72 billion in improper payments from fiscal years 2015 through 2022.
Analysis: Put aside the inconvenient fact that Trump was President for over half that period. Between FY15 and FY22, SSA disbursed over 8 trillion dollars. The figure cited translates to over 99% accuracy. Not perfect, but pretty damn good.
Point 5: Over 2 million illegal aliens were assigned SSNs in fiscal year 2024 alone.
Analysis: This is simply untrue. A person who enters the United States and requests asylum is not an "illegal alien" and is entitled to a non-work SSN. Simply having a number does not entitle the alien to SSA benefits. People who illegally cross the border are not entitled to an SSN.
Conclusion: It is truly incredible how low SSA has fallen in three short months. Congratulations to SSA's new Department of Presidential Propaganda (formerly known as OCOMM), I hope you're happy with yourselves.
At the time the SSNs were issued, they were legal to be issued based on the documents provided. Trump has revoked a lot of refugee statuses for people and now, “oops”, 2 million “illegal aliens” SSNs after the fact.
This SSA management is the new state run television like Fox and it’s called Leland and Friends.
Point 5 is absolutely true. Illegals (yes, they're illegal because they ignore their I-862 and don't bother showing up) can have or need to have a non-working SSN to get food stamps and TANF from the states.
Where's the proof that all 2 million failed to show up?
I've worked at SSA over a decade and I can count on one hand the number of non-work SSNs I've issued.
Most states don't require an SSN for Medicaid/TANF/food stamps. And if the state doesn't require an SSN for the benefit, you do not have a valid non-work reaosn.
The Hatch act is now only used to punish low level employees who are Dems.
The norms in our political system began dying three decades ago. They are dead, Chuck.
It’s up to the Office of Special Counsel to enforce the Hatch Act, and Trump recently fired the Special Counsel. And the Supreme Court has given that a big thumbs up. Besides, Trump has never penalized someone for violating the Hatch Act except when he needs a pretext for getting rid of them.
Please know this is not OCOMM’s doing. Their employees are pawns in all of this and are not happy about it. They have no control over anything that is published. It’s obvious that the people running the show are not concerned about what they show the agency as saying.
"Analysis: SSA is planning massive layoffs to its CIO Office (who are now, by the way, also mostly Schedule F)."
Source for the "mostly Schedule F" claim?
In regard to #3
"commonsense" is subjective.
As a member of the public only,the trump administration is making life hard for beneficiaries and claimants. Going further,they are destroying small businesses with tariffs.
“ Point 5 is absolutely true. Illegals (yes, they're illegal because they ignore their I-862 and don't bother showing up) can have or need to have a non-working SSN to get food stamps and TANF from the states.”
You do realize that SSA runs any and all immigration documents through SAVE (DHS) verification, right? So if DHS comes back and gives a thumbs up, whose fault is that in the end? Secondly, non-citizens can get SSNs for NON-WORK purposes, such as state assistance, but there are MOU (Memorandum of Understandings) between the state and SSA regarding these cases and the state MUST write a letter, on agency letter head, stating why an individual needs a non-work SSN, under what statutes the SSN is being requested, and it must be signed in ink by the state employee authorizing the letter.
People act like non-citizens just walk into an SSA office and say “gimme one SSN please!” And SSA just blindly stamps “APPROVED” and gives them an SSN without any sort of verification or documentation. The systems used to process enumeration make that impossible to do without verification that the person is legitimately authorized to get an SSN (non-work or otherwise)
A slightly different take: we have a convicted felon (who is a rapist and has a long history of fraud and lies) with an equally corrupt and incompetent cabinet and that explains why this administration does not follow rules.
Dont have twitter and wont go and get it, wont follow it, if everyone did that for about two months it wouldnt be there. But you just troop right on over and make it so they can use it as a communications tool. You follow you are to blame.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. called on the head of President Donald Trump's Social Security Administration to resign on Tuesday.
Schumer declared a "Social Security Day of Action" during a press conference in New York on Tuesday, accusing Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of cutting Americans' social security. Schumer called on acting SSA Administrator Leland Dudek to resign.
"Dudek is bad medicine for our seniors," Schumer said from the podium.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a hatchet man in Leland Dudek, an acting Commissioner with an emphasis on the 'acting,' because his real role is to dismantle the very office he is supposed to lead, make better, and protect," he continued. "We have seen his audition and his work on the stage, and it is clear: Dudek is incapable of doing this job in the way it needs to be done. He won't protect seniors. He will hurt them. Leland Dudek should resign."
Republicans are trying to kill Social Security from the inside – it is a cut by another name – and we won’t let that happen," Schumer said in another statement.
While I agree Gauleiter Dudek does not possess the knowledge, skills, or abilities necessary to perform the job, that is entirely the point -- he will do what the administration (whether Trump, Musk, or Bisignano) want him to do while he is there. When he stops doing so, he will be removed and replaced with someone who will.
No, we have a convicted felon in the whitehouse because a majority of voters in the most recent election let fear and racism guide them rather than make a rational and informed decision.
2 million SSNs assigned to undocumented people doesn't pass the smell test. SSA issues 6 million SSNs a year.
May as well replace the public affairs office with a bot that automatically sends out poop emojis the way Elon set up Twitter‘s. By the way how is a majority of the voting populace of the wealthiest nation on earth so profoundly intellectually deficient as to see such behavior and think Elon was going to do anything but push this country right down the sh**ter? Ya’ll Americans who voted for this really need to look in the mirror and engage in some deep introspection, because ya‘ll look dumber than s**t right now.
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