'An effort to break the agency': Memo exposes plan to ruin Social Security - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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A new internal Social Security Agency memo details proposed changes that would make it more difficult to utilize the agency's services, particularly for the elderly, medically constrained, or people who are not internet savvy.

Judd Legum, author of the Popular Information newsletter, talks with Rachel Maddow about how ongoing cuts to Social Security by the Trump administration further compound the problems that would come from the new proposed changes, and why that might not be by accident. - Aired on 03/17/2025.

[Irish_Dem]

1. This way they can claim they did not stop payments.

And they can blame it on the SS staff.
Trump will say the staff are lazy and don't show up to work.
So sorry about your SS payment.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good point, they're good at using excuses (lies), while the disabled and the elderly are between a rock and a hard place

But the bottom line is that this criminal administration doesn't care. Rather than using their powers to make life better for the American people, they're blatantly doing just the opposite and Republicans in Congress are too afraid of retaliation to even disagree.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Their only goal is to make life better for themselves and other billionaires.