Kelley Losier

Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago. But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley told CNBC.com. "Ultimately, you're going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits," O'Malley said. "I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days." Ahead of any interruption in benefits, "people should start saving

I can’t quite articulate the overwhelming rage and fear I’m experiencing with this news.

Our household supplements SS benefits for family members (like so many other millennials). If SS payments stop the impact on countless lives will be catastrophic.

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.*

There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

There’s something happening in this country.

The UVA Board of Visitors is meeting now to discuss whether to again restrict gender-affirming care for patients <19, despite the executive order being blocked twice.

Former Del. Mark Levine and I sent them a letter yesterday saying that’s against VA law. ⬇️
www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f5...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.