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John,
No one voted to cut Social Security. No one voted to cut Medicare. And no one voted for higher drug prices.
Donald Trump ran on a promise to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Based on Trump’s long record of working to cut and undermine our earned benefits, we don’t trust that promise for one second. But we plan to make him keep it.
There’s a good reason Trump didn’t campaign on cutting Social Security: 92% of Americans think that’s a terrible idea.1
But Trump spent his first term proposing cuts to our earned benefits, asking to slash billions in every budget.
Now, Trump has appointed Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and Vivek Ramaswamy, a pharma billionaire, to slash the federal budget by $2 trillion.
Tell Elon Musk’s Slash & Burn Commission: HANDS OFF Social Security!
Vice President-elect JD Vance has already indicated2 that Elon’s Slash & Burn commission will have Social Security in its crosshairs.
The Washington Post has reported that Musk wants to fire hundreds of thousands of government employees and replace them with “advanced technology.”3 Musk fired 80% of the staff when he took over Twitter.
This could mean that Musk wants to close four out of every five Social Security offices, and replace the experienced, knowledgeable Social Security workers with Grok AI chatbots.
Whether they’re coming for administrative funding or benefits, Elon’s Slash & Burn Commission will declare war on seniors. We must send a clear message: Hands OFF Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
Again and again, to Presidents of both parties, we have insisted: Any changes to Social Security must happen through regular Congressional order, in the light of day. It’s our money. We have paid in through our entire working lives―and we’re not going to let Elon Musk and Donald Trump take it!
Tell the Trump Administration and Congress: Hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
Thank you,
Alex Lawson
Social Security Works
1 https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2024/2/dfp_ssw_commission.pdf
2 https://newrepublic.com/post/186059/jd-vance-reveals-trump-will-use-musk-target-social-security
3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/20/musk-ramaswamy-government-cuts/
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