From Newsweek
Two Republican Senators voted against the GOP and President Donald Trump last week in favor of an amendment that would have reversed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts at the Social Security Administration (SSA). The vote took place late Friday night as the Senate voted on Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework. …
On Friday, Republican Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, both from Alaska, voted in favor of an amendment that sought to reverse "cuts to the Social Security Administration, which may include cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency or any other cuts to seniors' services." It failed to pass in a 50-49 vote. …
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Surprised Susan Collins didn’t wring her hands and vote for it knowing she could score some political points while still ensuring the bill failed
It's a big deal up here. I am sure their phones are ringing off the hook! Travel in Alaska is extremely difficult and expensive for claimants to get to an SSA office. Plane or boat usually. Very few roads considering the land area. Murkowski is a good senator and one of the few republicans I'd vote for (I'm on the fence, I vote for the most qualified candidate (and not convicted felons (eye roll)), she votes for Alaska, not a party. Sullivan is um... well, he did good this time, but usually his nose is up 47's butt.
The line started forming outside the Social Security office in suburban Glendale, Ariz., not long after sunrise, dozens of retirees and people with disabilities, shuffling papers, some leaning on walkers, all anxious to know whether President Trump’s government overhaul had put their safety nets at risk.
When 9 a.m. came, an employee emerged from the building with fliers asking the crowd to come back — once they had scheduled an appointment.
“I’ve called for days!” one woman yelled.
“We came from a long ways away,” said another. Still another let everyone know they had been handed a load of bunk, though she used a more colorful term.
“I didn’t know he was going to pull this,” said Teresa Boswell, whose vote for Mr. Trump in November helped flip Arizona, but who found herself fuming outside the Social Security office in Glendale last week, unable to sign up for $1,200 in monthly benefits after she retired from her job processing legal papers. “This is a joke.”
According to Liz Huston, a spokeswoman for the White House, “President Trump has made it clear that he is committed to making the federal government more efficient without compromising mission-critical operations. He has promised to protect Social Security, and every recipient will continue to receive their benefits.”
Vance's whopper on alleged
Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims that 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involves fraud.
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Awe, love this for them. At least they'll be able to talk to a computer that has unfettered access to every bit of data from governmental and non-governmental sources on their lives. I'm sure it will work out marvelously. LMMFAO 😂
Whaaaaat, a con-man conned?!? Say it ain't so. These are the same fools that buy crap off late night infomercials. Or, they're just too hateful to vote for anything but old white men and nasty women like MTG, Nancy Mace, Virginia Foxx, et al.
Elon Musk has claimed the Department of Government Efficiency is “the most transparent organization in government ever.” But Merici Vinton, a federal worker who recently left her job at the government information technology office weeks after it was taken over by DOGE, told CNN in an interview she witnessed a “highly secretive” effort operating by “a different set of rules.”
She described a wave of new staffers with limited knowledge of how federal agencies operate taking a bulldozer-like approach to shrinking the government — moves made with “a careless disregard for trying to understand how the work happens and what the rules and policies are.”
“A lot of government culture, love it or not, is about collaboration and consensus-building. That has not been the DOGE approach,” Vinton said. “They kind of do things their own way.”
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