Senator Ed Markey Warns Trump and Musk Are Lying About Social Security to Justify Cuts

Social Security Under Attack

• ⚠️ Social Security is facing an attack from Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans who aim to loot Americans' money for their own gain.
• 🎯 The strategy involves lying about the program to undermine public trust, using these lies as an excuse to gut Social Security and cut benefits, and ultimately raising the retirement age and privatizing the program.

Allegations of Fraud

• 🤥 Elon Musk and his associates falsely claim millions of deceased or extremely old individuals are fraudulently collecting Social Security benefits.
• 🔍 Former inspectors general and SSA leaders have found no evidence of this phantom fraud, yet the lie is repeated to justify cuts.
• 🗣️ Trump, in his State of the Union, repeated the lie about fraudulent benefits, following a playbook of lying about Social Security.

Gutting the Social Security Administration

• ✂️ While promoting the idea of massive fraud, the Social Security Administration is being hollowed out by cutting staff, reducing services, and closing offices.
• 💻 The website crashed multiple times, and phone services are being eliminated, making it difficult for seniors and people with disabilities to access benefits.
• 📉 The agency's current head has pushed out over 12% of staff and admitted that phone service "sucks," indicating a deliberate attempt to make the system fail.

Impact on Americans

• 💔 Without Social Security, over 22 million Americans, including 16 million seniors and nearly 1 million children, would be thrown into poverty.
• 👵 For nearly one in four beneficiaries, Social Security is their sole source of income, and for over two-thirds of seniors, it's the majority of their income.
• 👩‍🦳 Women, particularly older women, are disproportionately reliant on Social Security, making them especially vulnerable to benefit cuts.

The True Goal and a Call to Action

• 💰 The ultimate goal appears to be making billionaires richer by privatizing Social Security and handing benefits over to Wall Street.
• ✊ Senator Markey vows to fight against these attempts to destroy Social Security, emphasizing it is an earned benefit, not an entitlement.
• ⚖️ He proposes requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share into Social Security to preserve it for current and future generations.