Hakeem Jefferies: Average SS recipient lives on $65/day. Elon's contracts make about $8M/day

[Dennis Donovan]

Marco Foster
‪@marcofoster.bsky.social‬
NOW: Hakeem Jefferies speaks on Elon Musk and DOGE cuts to essential programs: “The average Social Security recipient lives on $65/day. Elon Musk right now has contracts with the federal government that make about $8 MILLION a day. If you want to go after waste, fraud and abuse, start right there”

April 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM

NOW: Hakeem Jefferies speaks on Elon Musk and DOGE cuts to essential programs: “The average Social Security recipient lives on /day. Elon Musk right now has contracts with the federal government that make about MILLION a day. If you want to go after waste, fraud and abuse, start right there”

— Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T15:41:11.815Z

[LuvLoogie]

1. Um. Is the podium out for repairs?

Are those the Capitol steps?

[soldierant]

6. Yes, those are the Capitol steps.

It's a "sit-in protest" of the GOP budget.

[central scrutinizer]

2. I'm a little below average

The median would be a better measure of the “middle”. Distributions involving money are almost always skewed to the right.

[elocs]

4. I live on half that amount so I must be half average.

I get by ok because of my low rent.

[soldierant]

5. Me too. However, I have

a small pension which put me just a little above average. Just a little.

[Autumn]

3. We seniors are well aware of that. What are you planning on doing about it?

[misanthrope]

7. Ha! I wish I had $65 to live on.

I am scraping by at far below that.

[valleyrogue]

8. I get his point, but $23,725 a year in SS benefits

is way more than I get and what a lot of people get, especially women who aren't living off a spousal benefit. At least I have a small pension, a full-time public sector job for which I am eligible for that pension if I can ever retire, and my SS benefit.

My "lifestyle" of upwards of $60k at age 70 can't be sustained. I am not looking forward to the day I have to quit my job.