The developers and institutional knowledge is and has been forced to the curb. The mismanagement is criminal and the cutting in the name of saving money is hogwash.
President Donald Trump released a budget proposal Friday calling for a mix of cuts to domestic programs involving public health, education and clean energy, while seeking to increase spending on the president’s priorities like border security and a bigger military.
The 40-page request was addressed to congressional leaders and accompanied by a letter from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought addressed to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Overall, Vought said the proposal contains a 23% cut ($163 billion) to discretionary funding and a 13% increase to military spending.
The White House budget comes as the Republican-led Congress is seeking to craft a massive bill for Trump’s priorities of tax cuts, higher spending on immigration enforcement and the military, spending cuts in other parts of the federal government, and a debt limit increase. Vought mentions the calls for border funding in the new budget blueprint.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.
The emergency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the team’s access under federal privacy laws.
Social Security holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country, including school records, bank details, salary information and medical and mental health records for disability recipients, according to court documents.
The government says the DOGE team needs access to target waste in the federal government. Musk has been focused on Social Security as an alleged hotbed of fraud, describing it as a “ Ponzi scheme ” and insisting that reducing waste in the program is an important way to cut government spending.
Yay. I hope giving up our ability to retire without being destitute was worth giving up to keep some Mexicans out of our country and ensure Jeff Bezos can keep buying ever larger yachts.
Since Social Security payments are routinely issued to many millions based upon calculations using decades old wage and SEI data, program code and application information that has been updated based on law that factors payment and relevant claims data inputs, and eligibility judgements made by SSA employees, could those claiming there will be a high level of payment errors or other problems issuing benefits routinely 6 months from now (63% of current responders) please explain themselves? Will there be a massive system hack, a bank crisis for government direct deposits, SSA employees intentionally making errors, or what? Do the 63% expect a massive recalculation of benefits in November by some gremlin? Perhaps they fear a total collapse of all financial systems, including payment of their government wages. Please share what you’ve learned from your 8-Ball!
Cool straw man. The new systems are so heavily interdependent that they are actually fairly fragile. The mainframe always seemed robust because of the intervention of folks with a great deal of expertise. Many of whom took the DRP or were in the “skinny” ROs. So yes, there is a possibility of significant failure.
“But, but, but ICERS isn’t going to stop properly calculating benefits,” you counter. Sure, granting that, maybe we still get the right benefit to the right person, but if we’re lacking appropriate support for those systems, not necessarily at the right time. That to me is a payment error. Maybe that level isn’t high in an absolute sense, but just because we could double our payment errors and still do a great job doesn’t mean we should!
Furthermore, not everything is a RIB claim triggered via MCS. Some stuff requires human intervention. The agency has had a drain on frontline support and expertise. If an FO, now tasked with training a ton of reassignments, needs to solve a problem, who do they turn to?
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The developers and institutional knowledge is and has been forced to the curb. The mismanagement is criminal and the cutting in the name of saving money is hogwash.
President Donald Trump released a budget proposal Friday calling for a mix of cuts to domestic programs involving public health, education and clean energy, while seeking to increase spending on the president’s priorities like border security and a bigger military.
The 40-page request was addressed to congressional leaders and accompanied by a letter from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought addressed to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Overall, Vought said the proposal contains a 23% cut ($163 billion) to discretionary funding and a 13% increase to military spending.
The White House budget comes as the Republican-led Congress is seeking to craft a massive bill for Trump’s priorities of tax cuts, higher spending on immigration enforcement and the military, spending cuts in other parts of the federal government, and a debt limit increase. Vought mentions the calls for border funding in the new budget blueprint.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-budget-proposes-slashing-health-education-clean-energy-programs-rcna204435
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems
https://apnews.com/article/doge-social-security-trump-administration-supreme-court-a38db8e9908e56b01265432f4d46e8e3
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.
The emergency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the team’s access under federal privacy laws.
Social Security holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country, including school records, bank details, salary information and medical and mental health records for disability recipients, according to court documents.
The government says the DOGE team needs access to target waste in the federal government. Musk has been focused on Social Security as an alleged hotbed of fraud, describing it as a “ Ponzi scheme ” and insisting that reducing waste in the program is an important way to cut government spending.
Yay. I hope giving up our ability to retire without being destitute was worth giving up to keep some Mexicans out of our country and ensure Jeff Bezos can keep buying ever larger yachts.
The White House budget proposal/plan is found here. It does not appear they are cutting Social Security greatly. Other programs are far more impacted.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/the-presidents-fy-2026-discretionary-budget-request/
Since Social Security payments are routinely issued to many millions based upon calculations using decades old wage and SEI data, program code and application information that has been updated based on law that factors payment and relevant claims data inputs, and eligibility judgements made by SSA employees, could those claiming there will be a high level of payment errors or other problems issuing benefits routinely 6 months from now (63% of current responders) please explain themselves? Will there be a massive system hack, a bank crisis for government direct deposits, SSA employees intentionally making errors, or what? Do the 63% expect a massive recalculation of benefits in November by some gremlin? Perhaps they fear a total collapse of all financial systems, including payment of their government wages.
Please share what you’ve learned from your 8-Ball!
Cool straw man. The new systems are so heavily interdependent that they are actually fairly fragile. The mainframe always seemed robust because of the intervention of folks with a great deal of expertise. Many of whom took the DRP or were in the “skinny” ROs. So yes, there is a possibility of significant failure.
“But, but, but ICERS isn’t going to stop properly calculating benefits,” you counter. Sure, granting that, maybe we still get the right benefit to the right person, but if we’re lacking appropriate support for those systems, not necessarily at the right time. That to me is a payment error. Maybe that level isn’t high in an absolute sense, but just because we could double our payment errors and still do a great job doesn’t mean we should!
Furthermore, not everything is a RIB claim triggered via MCS. Some stuff requires human intervention. The agency has had a drain on frontline support and expertise. If an FO, now tasked with training a ton of reassignments, needs to solve a problem, who do they turn to?
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