Democratic Senate members announced on Tuesday a “war room” to fight changes in the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The initiative, is led by members of the Senate Elizabeth Warren From Massachusetts, Ron Widen from Oregon, is a direct response to the overwhelming changes imposed by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), an administrative body established by the President Donald Trump And supervision before Elon Musk.
The “War Chamber” will be a major effort to pressure against the efforts made to change social security, visit field offices, hold the city’s halls, exchange stories of beneficiaries of social security and transfer information on social media.
“Social Security is attacked. Social Security is under the siege. The saw is directed to the advantages of the acquired social security. We believe Republicans “I have made a social security crisis,” Widen said at a press conference.
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“We must expand the advantages of social security, not cutting them. We must ask the richest Americans to pay their fair share in the program. It is time to fight for social security,” Warren said at the press conference. “We can protect social security from Trump’s greed, musk and building a future, where everyone in this nation can retire in dignity.”
Dog also painted an audit to oversee what he calls “Main Cleaning” From SSA death records. The agency said it had updated more than 9.9 million records for holders of the numbers listed at the age of 120 and above, which represents them as a deceased.
“Over the past four weeks, Socialsecurity has carried out a major cleaning process for their record twitter. “Nearly 9.9 million holders, all of whom are included in the 120+ menu, are now distinguished.” The post added: “2 million people to go.”
The effort came after Mousk’s allegations that millions of deceased individuals are still receiving benefits.
“The twilight may be real and there are a lot of vampires who collect social security,” Musk wrote in a post on the social media that he was martyred. Newsweek.
However, SSA explained that the individuals concerned had not received payments.
SSA said on March 5: “The data referred to in the media relates to individuals whose records lack the date of the registered death. While these individuals may not receive benefits, it is very important that the agency supports accurate and complete records,” SSA said on March 5.
Fears of technical problems have also emerged with SSA. Some users have reported that they are unable to log in or receive messages that are incorrectly indicating that they are not receiving payments. SSA admitted “a few” brief disorders “about 20 minutes for each.
“There was a set of stories about problems that reach the pages of social security,” said Linda Pench, a spokeswoman for the Social Security Group in the Dawa Group. “It can turn into a flood in the coming weeks and months.”
The creation of the war room coincides with the delay in the Trump candidate for the SSA leadership, Frank Pesiniano. the Senate The Finance Committee failed to reach the quorum on Tuesday, which led to the postponement of a confirmation of assertion. Widan said that one of the infrinkers of the violations stated that Pesiniano “is talking to people in social security every day for weeks so far.”
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Mike Crabo, Idaho republicanBisignano said he has no role in SSA and did not participate in decision -making. Krabo said that the candidate revealed previous contacts with many SSA officials and defended it as part of the preparation for the confirmation session.
“Companies will bring him on board when they want to eliminate, cut,” the leader of the minority in the Senate Chuck Shomer He said about Bisignano, who supervised the demobilization of workers as an executive head of the First Data and Fiserv. “You don’t bring bisignano on board if you want to enhance it. You can bring it if you want to distinguish it. Bisignano’s position responsible for social security is to rent a fire station operation.”
