BREAKING NEWS: Schumer Shreds Musk For 'Shamelessly Lying' About Social Security
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what many of us have warned about. Republicans are getting ready to gut Social Security and gut Medicare. Here's what he said during an interview with Fox Business. The richest man on earth repeated again a bevy of lies that entitlement programs tens of millions of people rely on are riddled with fraud and abuse. That's a pretext to slashing them.

But it's false. He added most of the federal spending is entitlements. That's true. So that the big ones to the big one to eliminate. So that's the big one to eliminate, meaning Social Security. Let me quote Elon Musk again. That's the big one. Social Security to eliminate. It's rare to hear Republicans tell the truth about their plans so directly. What Elon Musk is saying is that sooner or later,

Republicans are going to target people's Social Security and Medicare benefits. The outrage that the richest man in the world would tell millions of seniors who depend on those checks each month that it's fraud, that it's waste, is outrageous. He doesn't have any idea the harm it would do. And it isn't fraud. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans know that the math on their billionaire tax cuts will not work.

without going after these benefits. And all they care about is cutting their taxes further. Outrageous. As America begins to hear this, America is going to realize what a bad bargain Donald Trump was in the election. It's another awful reminder that under Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Republicans, billionaires win, American families lose. There's something truly rotten

about the Republican agenda when a multi-billionaire, the richest man in the world, is allowed to lie so casually about one of America's most sacred programs in order to justify taking benefits away from hardworking Americans. Few programs have done more good, have helped more people, have been more popular than Social Security has for nearly a century. Few programs are as beloved by Americans as Social Security.

Americans, of course, support eliminating waste, but they do not want to see their Social Security benefits get taken away. How is Elon Musk trying to do this? He's using the oldest trick in the book, shamelessly lying about Social Security, just as Donald Trump did in his State of the Union address, where he listed hundreds of people who were born 100 or 20 years ago and couldn't show a single one was getting Social Security.

Musk is shamelessly lying about Social Security, claiming it's riddled with fraud in order to justify taking benefits away from seniors and retirees. He ignores the very bold, plain fact that the federal government has already conducts an audit of Social Security every year. It's a legit audit, not a partisan audit. It's been done during Trump's presidency and Biden's presidency. What did it find?

Less than 1%, 1%, less than 1% of all payments from 2015 to 2022 were made in error. That, Mr. Musk, is not what fraud looks like. He cherry picks data to suggest that tens of millions of dead people are getting checks. This is a lie. And to be sure,

This isn't just about Elon Musk's rhetoric. The assault on Social Security is taking place and taking shape in practice. Doge has already taken over the Social Security Administration agency and has free access to the private data and benefits of tens of millions of Americans. The Trump administration has already begun to fire 7,000 staffers

which means local offices will shut down, customer service wait times will explode, the risk of delayed benefits will skyrocket. So I ask my Republican colleagues, you all fine with this?

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Are they fine with Musk calling Social Security one giant scam? Let's find a single person here on the Republican side who starts rebutting Musk once and for all when they know he's doing what the American people hate and is not telling the truth. Do our colleagues believe, agree with Musk's lie that hundreds of billions of dollars in outright fraud has compromised Social Security? Mark my words.

If Elon Musk and Doge continue their attacks against Social Security, if the president continues his attacks, which he made in the State of the Union, sooner or later, benefits are going to be delayed, mistakenly halted, and the political uproar from Americans from one end of the country to the other, red, purple, and blue, will be immense.

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