Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.

"Pearre told Coulter that the plan (to list immigrants as dead so they can't work) was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead." Two days later, security guards showed up and marched him out of the office.

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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

Musk gets his hands all over Social Security and suddenly their only means of communication becomes Twitter(X).

www.wired.com/story/social...

A picture worth a thousand words: Frank Bisignano, Trump's pick to run the Social Security Administration, rang the closing bell yesterday--after the worst day in the stock market since 2020.

*taps sign*

Social Security is not OK, and things are getting worse

👀 Top SSA appointee from Trump I:

Staff cuts "inconsistent with DOGE’s stated purpose to improve efficiency & reduce government spending"

"DOGE’s doubtfully legal intrusion into personal data at SSA owing to its claims of widespread fraud...is both strange & misplaced"

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Wait until you see what AI does with Social Security!

Social Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut Down The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency —...

Social Security Acting Head Claims DOGE Ruling Threatens Agency

“My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,” Dudek said. “As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems.”

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As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In Three private equity veterans are weaseling their way in, reportedly on the orders of the presumptive SSA commissioner.

Privatization of the retirement market has been a long-standing goal of capital, and private equity’s sights are turning to the Social Security Administration.
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Elon’s conspiracy theories are getting lazier. No need to bother writing a new debunker—he’s just repeating the same old silly lies. 🥱

The facts are true as they ever were: Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program.

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There is NO WAY to cut 7,000 staff from the Social Security Administration without hurting Social Security beneficiaries.

The math ain't mathing.

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r... via @statnews.com

Zelenskyy Abruptly Departs White House

We stand with you, President Zelenskyy #SlavaUkraini 💙🇺🇦💛

The ongoing bloodbath at the Social Security Administration has only one goal: The total annihilation of Social Security by firing half of the work force and closing the field offices.

Wall Street billionaires want to destroy Social Security so they can give themselves trillions in tax handouts.

Top Social Security deputies leave amid rumored staff cuts At least five of the eight regional heads have decided to leave as the mid-level worker-turned-acting commissioner is said to mull workforce reduction.

Top Social Security deputies leave amid rumored staff cuts www.govexec.com/transition/2... via @GovExec

Which communities will be hurt by the latest round of Social Security field office closures? Here's a list, based on DOGE.gov:

Annison, Alabama
Cullman, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama
Jasper, Alabama
Batesville, Arkansas
Forrest City, Arkansas
Texarkana, Arkansas
Jonesboro, Arkansas

More communities that will be hurt by DOGE's Social Security field office closures:

Carlsbad, California
Grand Junction, Colorado
Gainesville, Florida
Melbourne, Florida
Columbus, Georgia
Vidalia, Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia
Thomasville, Georgia
Rockford, Illinois
Campbellsville, Kentucky

Yet more communities that will be hurt by DOGE's Social Security field office closures:

Hazard, Kentucky
Houma, Louisiana
Okemos, Michigan
Grenada, Missouri
Greenwood, Missouri
Meridian, Missouri
Missoula, Montana
Kalispell, Montana
Las Vegas, Nevada
White Plains, New York
Horseheads, New York

What happens when the SSA closes field offices?
*People have a harder time getting access to services that they are eligible for because of crowded offices.
*People with more severe disabilities, lower income and lower education are most adversely affected.
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“Social Security won’t exist by the time you retire, so you better not count on it!” Yeah because it is being drawn and quartered for the pleasure of our softest-handed overlords

@marisakabas.bsky.social - via comments on the Charles Hall blog - plans to cut 50% of all SSA staff - if true, very concerning…On a 3pm EST call this afternoon the ACOSS told the DCs/execs that he wanted a plan to cut 50% of ALL staff, including frontline staff, to him by tomorrow afternoon-

It’s too early to say, but it looks possible that the second Trump administration’s legacy will be dismantling social security.

Social Security Recipients’ Anxiety Mounts as DOGE Troops Settle In Elon Musk is descending on the already understaffed department, and the consequences could impact millions.

Social Security Recipients’ Anxiety Mounts as DOGE Troops Settle In
Elon Musk is descending on the already understaffed department, and the consequences could impact millions.

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The Social Security Administration today announced the closing of a component within the agency, the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. Employees in this office will be put on administrative leave effective today.

For more information, please visit www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases.

Social Security Administration shutters multiple offices after anti-DOGE head quits The closure of SSA's Office of Transformation and the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity comes as DOGE staffers are now embedded within the agency, following the resignation of former acting commissioner Michelle King, a career federal worker who resigned last week over a disagreement with DOGE's efforts to access sensitive government records.

Social Security Administration shutters multiple offices after anti-DOGE head quits

Round two: Social Security has just dissolved the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. Sigh.