social security

Elderly and disabled people are encountering severe service disruptions as the Trump administration overhauls the Social Security Administration system.

When one voter asked Schiff and Carbajal about the looming threat of cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Schiff walked the crowd through the process known as reconciliation, which enables some spending bills to pass the Republican-controlled Senate on a simple majority vote.

But she described Musk's goal to slash a third of government spending as "ridiculous", since so much of the budget was mandatory, including popular programmes like Social Security and Medicare.

My family was able to financially survive this illness because of the Social Security system that Democrats fought to create, thankfully.

DOGE’s takeover of the agency, apart from potentially costing billions, has also included a mass scraping of taxpayer data, giving Musk and his team of young staffers access to taxpayers’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, incomes, banking and brokerage account numbers, potential medical expenses and immigration status.