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Republicans are getting ready to cut Social gut, Social Security and gut Medicare. Here's what he said during an interview with Fox Business. The richest man on earth repeated again a bevy of lies that entitlement programs tends, that entitlement programs 10s of millions of people rely on are riddled with fraud and abuse. That's a pretext to slashing them. But he's it's false, he added. Most of the federal spending is entitlements. That's true. So that the big ones to the big
one to eliminate. So that's the big one to eliminate, meaning Social Security. Let me quote Elon Musk again. That's the big one, Social Security to eliminate. It's rare to hear Republicans tell the truth about their plans. So directly, what Elon Musk is saying is that sooner or later, Republicans are going to target people's Social Security and
Medicare benefits. The outrage that the richest man in the world would tell millions of seniors who depend on those checks each month that it's fraud, that it's waste, it's outrageous. He doesn't have any idea the harm it would do, and it isn't fraud. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans know that the mass on their billionaire tax cuts will not work without going after these benefits, and all they care about is cutting their
taxes further. Outrageous. As America begins to hear this, America is going to realize what a bad bargain Donald Trump was in the election. It's another awful reminder that under Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Republicans, billionaires win, American families lose.
There's something truly rotten about the Republican agenda when a multi billionaire, the richest man in the world, is allowed to lie so casually about one of America's most sacred programs in order to justify taking benefits away from hard working Americans. Few programs have done more good, have helped more people, have been more popular than Social Security has for nearly a century. Few programs are as beloved by Americans as Social Security.
Americans, of course, support eliminating waste, but they do not want to see their Social Security benefits get taken away. How is Elon Musk trying to do this? He's using the oldest trick in the book, shamelessly lying about Social Security.
Just as Donald Trump did in his State of the Union address, where he listed hundreds of people who were born 100 or 20 years ago and couldn't show a single one was getting Social Security. Musk is shamelessly lying about Social Security, claiming it's riddled with fraud in order to justify taking benefits away from seniors and retirees. He ignores the very bold, plain fact that the federal government has that already conducts an audit of Social Security every
year. It's a legit audit, not a partisan audit. It's been done during Trump's presidency and Biden's presidency. What did it find? Less than one percent, 1%. Less than 1% of all payments from 2015 to 2022 were made in error. That Mister Musk is not what fraud looks like. He cherry picks data to suggest that 10s of millions of dead people are getting checks. This is a lie. And to be sure, this isn't just
about Elon Musk's rhetoric. The assault on Social Security is taking place in in taking place in taking shape in practice. Dodge has already taken Dosh has already taken over the Social Security Administration agency and his free access to the private data and benefits of 10s of millions of Americans. The Trump administration has already begun to fire 7000 staffers, which means local offices will shut down customer service wait times will explode.
The risk of delayed benefits will skyrocket. So I asked my Republican colleagues, you all fine with this? Are they fine with Musk calling Social Security one giant scam? Let's find a single person here on the Republican side. It starts rebutting Musk once and for all when they know he's doing what the American people hate and is not telling the truth. Do our colleagues believe, agree with Musk's lie that hundreds of billions of dollars in outright fraud has compromised Social
Security? Mark my words, if Elon Musk and Doge continue their attacks against Social Security, if the president continues his attacks which he made in the State of the Union, sooner or later benefits are going to be delayed, mistakenly halted, and the political uproar from Americans from one end of the country to the other, red, purple and blue will be immense. Hey. Thank you so much for listening today, I really do.
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