Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Social Security Administrator Committing To Continue The Work Of DOGE, Putting Earned Benefits For America’s Seniors At Risk

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the severe damage being done to the Social Security Administration through DOGE’s cuts, placing seniors at risk of losing benefits. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Elon Musk might have been run out of town, but his handiwork lives on at the Social Security Administration. Remember when he called Social Security a big Ponzi scheme?

Well, he's gone, but the Social Security Administrator – newly put in despite vehement opposition from Democrats – said that Musk or not, DOGE will remain king at SSA. DOGE.

Remember that, folks? The chainsaw? Well, it's going to be alive and well at the Social Security Administration with Mr. Bisignano in charge. Mr. Slash and Burn. Mr. Cut, Cut, Cut.

It is alarming that even after Elon Musk became persona non grata among Trump circles, the Social Security Administrator still wants to keep using his failed playbook to oversee seniors’ Social Security checks.

Social Security is sacred in America. Even after Musk’s departure, which occurred in part because of DOGE’s failure, this administration is still talking about applying DOGE strategies to Social Security, probably the most popular and sacrosanct program passed in the last hundred years.

It shows how the billionaires like Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick – remember what he said, that his mom could afford to miss a payment or two – are running the show, and how they are callous and cruel with no understanding of how average senior citizens depend on that Social Security check.

It is a disgrace, and Donald Trump and his political cohort will pay the political price for endangering this popular program.

It’s nice to talk about efficiency. But by now we know there is nothing efficient about DOGE. It led to closures, longer wait times on the phone, glitches online, and immense anxiety for seniors. Bisignano should send DOGE staffers packing before they cause more trouble with senior’s Social Security benefits.

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