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Neal on the Five-Alarm Fire at the Social Security Administration
Springfield, MA,
March 19, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted Republicans’ systematic attack on the people’s earned benefits and the Social Security Administration: “The American people’s earned benefits are in trouble. With President Trump and Musk’s DOGE calling the shot, the Social Security Administration is being led by an unqualified yes man, who has admitted to canceling contracts out of pettiness, allowed living beneficiaries to be classified as dead, and is taking pride in leading the agency to its demise. Gutting customer service and restricting benefit access are not just burdensome for our nation’s seniors and people with disabilities—they are back-door benefit cuts. “This is exactly why Elon Musk himself must appear before the Ways and Means Committee to explain to the American people what the richest man in the world is doing jeopardizing their hard-earned retirement security. HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY!” ### |