Summary

Despite Donald Trump’s promise to avoid Social Security cuts, recent signals from the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, suggest reductions may be forthcoming.

The department, aimed at streamlining federal spending, has sparked concern among advocates worried about potential impacts on the program.

Trump’s mixed messaging and DOGE’s focus on cost-cutting have intensified scrutiny as officials prepare policy recommendations.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    152·
    10 days ago

    They can do it and get sued, the fact is people who paid into it expecting to make use of the program were stolen from if they cut it. The govt. needs to stop being a bitch and tax the wealthy.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Good luck with that under the Orange Idiotn and his shit chugging sycophants. As a disabled person who needs SSDI to live, I’d join that lawsuit in a nanosecond.

    • oyo@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 days ago

      Yup, it’s such a lie that SS and Medicare are socialist “entitlements.” We’re entitled to them because we fucking paid for them.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 days ago

        The first government pension system was implemented by that arch-conservative Bismarck.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      Imminent domain and civil asset forfeiture are the government stealing your shit and telling you to get fucked. You think it won’t be the same for social security?