From the Washington Examiner:
President Donald Trump hosted the 12th Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday, where he claimed that the White House’s anti-fraud task force may balance the federal budget and save Social Security. …
The president claimed that the task force has already identified “billions and billions and billions” worth of fraud, adding that if the initiative “does really great, we’ll have a balanced budget without having to do anything.”
“Everybody was getting rich, and I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it,” Trump said. Just the numbers of fraudulent people on Social Security — people that are 115 years old, 125 years old, getting payments. It’s funny.”
“The numbers that we’re finding out — we have great people in Social Security. We’re going to make our Social Security so strong, so good, that you’d never seen anything like it,” he continued. “We’re going to protect, I said right from the beginning, we’re going to protect our people in Social Security.” …
By the way, please note that I occasionally use irony. Comments to my post yesterday suggest that some of my readers can’t figure this out or they’re unable to spot obvious irony when they see it.
16 comments:
Great news! Was this before or after his daytime nap? 😴
Seems like it goes hand in hand with the agency's sudden focus on background checks for all employees.
Thank God! The crisis is over (irony)!
What an incoherent, lying sack of sh*t.
"billions and billions and billions" Sure Donnie!
Well, maybe these "billions and billions and billions" of dollars could make a slight dent in the 39 trillion dollar federal deficit.
I believe the 39 trillion is the US debt, not the deficit.
Dumber than dumb
The public’s number than numb
Wouldn’t know the truth
If it kicked them in the bum
It’s the Anti-Fraud
Oh my gawd
No one believes
What I said I saw Task Force
Of course, the President is referring to the Zimbabwean Dollar. Trillions of Zimbabwean Dollars in fraud is accurate.
He may have done nothing but Congress has known for many years that SSA will run short of money in 6 or 7 years and has done nothing. Small adjustments 20 years ago would have been helpful but they didn't have the backbone to do it. Blame can be thrown on the various presidents for not pushing for legislation.
Again with the bogus claim, like Musk’s (and Trump’s) repeated ignorant statements last year about “millions and millions of people over 100 years old” being paid. Debunked hogwash. Those BS claims helped put the agency into a tailspin from which it hasn’t - and may not - recover.
Social Security Expansion Act S. 770 was introduced on February 27, 2025. Hopefully after the midterms, the Democrats will make it a priority to pass. An independent analysis by the Social Security Administration (SSA) Chief Actuary determined that the bill would eliminate the long-range shortfall and extend solvency for 75 years.
Increasing benefit amounts $200 per month per person is not the best way to close the funding gap.
Raising the SSA tax from 6.2 percent to 7.2 is reasonable and will help close the gap with money from those it will benefit.
@1:08: Right. Forcing the poor to be poorer is a lot more reasonable than making the ultra wealthy pay a fair share of taxes.
Reagan really rotted you people’s brains in a bad way.
@828 Making retirees pay for their own retirement is fair. The ultra wealthy aren't going to be paying much more in SSA taxes. They can manipulate their income so they don't receive wages. One percent of SSA taxed income is not going to make people poorer.
Exactly. It isn't SSA's fault that Musk and his sycophants were all both too lazy and too stupid to actually learn to read the records.
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