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bif

(27,000 posts)
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:42 PM Mar 2025

Musk pitching SS cuts

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Elon Musk and the Trump administration are pitching cuts in one of the most politically dangerous arenas in America — the Social Security Administration.

Musk has cast the idea as one that’s primarily about immigration, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes.

“By using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” Musk, the billionaire tech CEO behind the Department of Government Efficiency, said Monday on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast, without evidence. “And buy voters. Basically bring in 10, 20 million people who are beholden to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelmingly Democrat, as has been demonstrated in California.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-uses-immigration-claims-voter-104541766.html

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Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
3. I can't wait to put this fraud in prison.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:47 PM
Mar 2025

He's the biggest welfare queen, that fraudulently filed immigration papers and has lived off the country he is breaking. I will not be happy until he is penniless on a one way ticket to South Africa.

Deuxcents

(26,925 posts)
5. Where's the proof? He has no idea what a disaster he's gonna face from pissed off people..we've seen enough of him
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:48 PM
Mar 2025

Diamond_Dog

(40,578 posts)
6. He doesn't need proof
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:53 PM
Mar 2025

All he has to do is make up his own facts and numbers and the cult believes him.

Lonestarblue

(13,480 posts)
7. The truth is that many undocumented workers pay into Social Security and never receive a penny.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:54 PM
Mar 2025

They contribute billions of dollars a year to Social Security and Medicare, both programs that cannot use—$26 billion to SS and $6 billion to Medicare in a recent year. The media should be reporting that.

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