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Summary
Staff at the Social Security Administration (SSA) warn the agency is in “complete, utter chaos” due to drastic budget cuts, office closures, and job losses led by Elon Musk.
Plans to cut 7,000 jobs and centralize operations have disrupted services, with website outages and record backlogs.
Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek backs DOGE’s changes, despite union opposition and legal pushback. Critics say Musk is pushing misinformation to justify dismantling SSA.
With staffing at 50-year lows, experts fear a “death spiral” and potential collapse in service delivery.
Maybe, but on 4/5 protests yesterday I saw something interesting.
Typically it is younger people, minorities that are oppressed.
This time majority were white people, vets, seniors (many on walkers or wheelchairs). Actually there was a very small number of minorities. As I understand it is because of ICE and threat of being locked up in prison in El Salvador (not criticizing, this is all understandable as being darker skinned places a target on you for corrupted law enforcement)
Though this gives me hope that actually a large number of seniors actually understand who is responsible.