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BREAKING NEWS : Gwen Moore Calls On GOP To Not Be 'Useful Idiots About' Musk, Trump Pushing For Social Security Cuts · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Stick with worry at the risk of fraudsters having their Social
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  Security numbers, banking information, and other personal
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  information shared with Musk cronies who've invaded the
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  Social Security Administration. So let's be clear.
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  President Trump and Elon Musk have launched a public campaign
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  against Social Security. Mr. Musk is calling Social
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  Security a Ponzi scheme, and both he and President Trump are
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  spreading widely discredited lies about the program and its
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  integrity. But the facts don't add up.
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  Let me read just a few of the countless news headlines
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  debunking their false claims. The Associated Press says 10s of
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  millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks
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  despite Trump and Musk claims. ABC News says Musk misreads
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  Social Security data Millions of dead people are not getting
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  benefits, experts say. CBS News says news Social
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  Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years
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  get 100 years old getting checks The Washington Post says Elon
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  Musk claims of Social Security fraud don't hold up, and here's
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  why. And The New York Times says
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  millions of dead people on Social Security.
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  The agency's own data says otherwise, and in fact, the
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  claims by Elon Musk are based on complete misunderstanding of
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  Social Security's data systems, which often lack complete birth
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  and death information for people born before 1920, before Social
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  Security was established and long before electronic records
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  were kept. A 2023 Inspector General report
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  said that almost none of these people born before 1920 with
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  misinformation are paid benefits.
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  But my constituents are also worried.
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  Worried because the Trump administration is taking a
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  Wrecking Ball to the Social Security Administration.
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  Far from making the agency more efficient, they are undermining
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  its ability to serve the public. And why are they trying to
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  destroy the Social Security Administration?
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  It's the first step of a long standing effort by Republicans
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  to dismantle trust in Social Security and slash benefits.
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  The Trump administration wants to close Social Security offices
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  across the nation and slash the agency's workforce by nearly one
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  in eight employees. Social Security Administration
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  This administration is already at A50 year staffing low due to
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  years of underfunding, and it's serving more beneficiaries than
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  ever. How will gutting its workforce
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  help it to serve the American people?
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  While the answer is that it doesn't, and in fact, it's very
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  likely a move to undermine confidence so that the Trump
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  administration can privatize it. And with that I yield back.
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  Memory yields back. I now recognize Miss Moore for 5
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  minutes to strike the last quarter.
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  Thank you so very, very much, Mr. Chairman and and Ranking
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  Member and Members, I am reminded of what Maya Angelou
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  said when she said, she said when someone shows you who they
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  are, believe them the first time.
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  And then, of course, Rachel Maddow, who is a news
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  commentator on MSNBC often says you need to watch what people do
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  and not what they say. And I think that that's those
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  are very helpful admonitions in view of this discussion here
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  today. We have our Republican
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  colleagues swearing that Donald Trump will not do anything to
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  Social Security. And, you know, from your lips to
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  guys ears, let's hope, you know, I'm on your side.
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  I'm hoping that you're right. But we have known that
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  Republicans have long wanted to destroy Social Security and
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  really privatize it. As a matter of fact, former
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  chair of this committee, my good friend Paul Ryan from Wisconsin,
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  openly tried to privatize Social Security.
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  My own Senator Johnson was the first person I ever heard call
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  it a Ponzi scheme long before, before Elon Musk was on the
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  scene. And Mick Mulvaney during the
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  Trump One administration who was a former chief of staff,
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  testified before the Joint Economic Committee that, yes, we
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  need to go after Social Security because just like Jesse James
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  robbed banks because that's where the money is.
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  And so I am, you know, I'm not convinced that that they're not
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  going to do it. Musk has just basically said we
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  need to go after entitlement spending, which he designates
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  the Social Security and Medicare.
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  So I think that it's important for that our Republican friends
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  not to be willfully ignorant, to be useful idiots about this, you
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  know, And so, so that's what they say.
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  What? But what are they doing?
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  Let's look at that. This this CR that we passed just
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  yesterday. In order to flat fund the
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  operations of the Social Security Administration, we
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  would have had to have added $600 million instead of adding
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  the $600.00 just to flat fund the agency that cut it by an
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  additional 100 million. That's $700 million.
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  Watch what they do. You know, you're trying to save
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  Social Security, but you want to destroy customer service.
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  We heard of Mr. Estes, the new chairman of the subcommittee,
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  talk about how awful the customer service is.
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  Well, yeah, but that is part of the scheme to undermine Social
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  Security to the point that people lose faith in it.
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  As a matter of fact, Martin O'Neill Malley sent me this
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  text. He says they just want to wreck
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  it so they can rob it. And now with this CR and the
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  mass firings taking place of Social Security as we speak,
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  they are destroying customer service for the American people,
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  driving this agency to collapse and putting at grave and serious
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  risk the monthly benefits of 72 million Americans as the former
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  commissioner of Social Security, Martin O'Malley.
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  And then the President Trump tells us that he's going to cut
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  taxes on Social Security. Well, that really sounds great.
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  Send people, I heard $5000 checks.
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  That really sounds great. And that of course, would help
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  people making twenty, $30,000 immediately.
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  But in the long run, they would be hurt the most and wealthy
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  people would be helped the most. But in the meantime, it would
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  cost the trust fund $1.5 trillion to do that.
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  You know, watch what they do, not what they say.
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  That would undermine Social Security tremendously.
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  The Social Security payment accuracy is about 99 point 8.8%
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  so I don't know how much of waste, fraud and abuse can be
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  found in it. This really the last point that
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  I want to make is that Elon Musk is a tech tycoon and I wondered
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  what the value of this data is to him.
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  It's immeasurable. So this is a serious conflict of
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  interest for this man to have Social Security data when he is
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  a tech tycoon. Numbers time has expired.
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  Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, for your indulgence, and I yield
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  back. I recognize Mr. Boyle.
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