Social Security
THANK YOU SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN! WE SUPPORT YOU! Let’s say a 66-year-old man qualifies for Social Security. He’s worked his whole life and contributed his hard-earned money, believing in America’s promise that if you pay into the system, you can count on these benefits when you retire. Say he calls the Social Security helpline to apply, but he’s told about a new DOGE rule, so he has to go online or in person. He can’t drive. He has trouble with the website, so he waits until his niece can get a day off to take him to the local office, but DOGE closed that office, so they have to drive two hours to get to the next closest office. When they get there, there are only two people staffing a 50-person line, so he doesn’t even make it to the front of the line before the office closes, and he has to come back. Let’s assume it takes him three months to straighten this out, and he misses a total of $5,000 in benefit checks. Clearly, it would be illegal for Elon Musk or Donald Trump to c...