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BREAKING NEWS: Schumer Shreds Musk For 'Shamelessly Lying' About Social Security · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Mr. President, yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk confirmed
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  what many of us have been warning about for a long time.
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  Republicans are getting ready to gut Social Security and
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  Medicare. Let me repeat that.
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  Elon Musk confirmed what many of us have warned about.
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  Republicans are getting ready to cut Social gut, Social Security
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  and gut Medicare. Here's what he said during an
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  interview with Fox Business. The richest man on earth
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  repeated again a bevy of lies that entitlement programs tends,
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  that entitlement programs 10s of millions of people rely on are
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  riddled with fraud and abuse. That's a pretext to slashing
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  them. But he's it's false, he added.
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  Most of the federal spending is entitlements.
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  That's true. So that the big ones to the big
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  one to eliminate. So that's the big one to
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  eliminate, meaning Social Security.
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  Let me quote Elon Musk again. That's the big one, Social
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  Security to eliminate. It's rare to hear Republicans
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  tell the truth about their plans.
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  So directly, what Elon Musk is saying is that sooner or later,
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  Republicans are going to target people's Social Security and
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  Medicare benefits. The outrage that the richest man
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  in the world would tell millions of seniors who depend on those
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  checks each month that it's fraud, that it's waste, it's
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  outrageous. He doesn't have any idea the
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  harm it would do, and it isn't fraud.
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  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans know that the mass
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  on their billionaire tax cuts will not work without going
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  after these benefits, and all they care about is cutting their
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  taxes further. Outrageous.
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  As America begins to hear this, America is going to realize what
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  a bad bargain Donald Trump was in the election.
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  It's another awful reminder that under Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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  and Republicans, billionaires win, American families lose.
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  There's something truly rotten about the Republican agenda when
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  a multi billionaire, the richest man in the world, is allowed to
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  lie so casually about one of America's most sacred programs
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  in order to justify taking benefits away from hard working
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  Americans. Few programs have done more
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  good, have helped more people, have been more popular than
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  Social Security has for nearly a century.
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  Few programs are as beloved by Americans as Social Security.
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  Americans, of course, support eliminating waste, but they do
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  not want to see their Social Security benefits get taken
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  away. How is Elon Musk trying to do
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  this? He's using the oldest trick in
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  the book, shamelessly lying about Social Security.
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  Just as Donald Trump did in his State of the Union address,
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  where he listed hundreds of people who were born 100 or 20
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  years ago and couldn't show a single one was getting Social
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  Security. Musk is shamelessly lying about
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  Social Security, claiming it's riddled with fraud in order to
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  justify taking benefits away from seniors and retirees.
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  He ignores the very bold, plain fact that the federal government
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  has that already conducts an audit of Social Security every
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  year. It's a legit audit, not a
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  partisan audit. It's been done during Trump's
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  presidency and Biden's presidency.
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  What did it find? Less than one percent, 1%.
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  Less than 1% of all payments from 2015 to 2022 were made in
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  error. That Mister Musk is not what
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  fraud looks like. He cherry picks data to suggest
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  that 10s of millions of dead people are getting checks.
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  This is a lie. And to be sure, this isn't just
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  about Elon Musk's rhetoric. The assault on Social Security
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  is taking place in in taking place in taking shape in
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  practice. Dodge has already taken Dosh has
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  already taken over the Social Security Administration agency
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  and his free access to the private data and benefits of 10s
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  of millions of Americans. The Trump administration has
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  already begun to fire 7000 staffers, which means local
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  offices will shut down customer service wait times will explode.
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  The risk of delayed benefits will skyrocket.
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  So I asked my Republican colleagues, you all fine with
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  this? Are they fine with Musk calling
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  Social Security one giant scam? Let's find a single person here
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  on the Republican side. It starts rebutting Musk once
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  and for all when they know he's doing what the American people
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  hate and is not telling the truth.
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  Do our colleagues believe, agree with Musk's lie that hundreds of
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  billions of dollars in outright fraud has compromised Social
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  Security? Mark my words, if Elon Musk and
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  Doge continue their attacks against Social Security, if the
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  president continues his attacks which he made in the State of
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  the Union, sooner or later benefits are going to be
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  delayed, mistakenly halted, and the political uproar from
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  Americans from one end of the country to the other, red,
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