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John,
Yesterday, I spent time on Capitol Hill asking members of the House caucus that support Elon Musk’s Slash & Burn Commission if they would commit to protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Because most of the members of that caucus are Republicans, I thought it would help if I brought copies of Donald Trump’s campaign mailers where he promised to protect Social Security and Medicare.
Here’s what caucus co-chair Marjorie Taylor Greene thought of Trump’s campaign promises:1
Another Republican, Rep. Greg Lopez, confirmed that this caucus planned to throw Trump’s campaign promises in the trash. He said that “at the end of the day, there will be some cuts” to Social Security and Medicare.2
No matter who is behind them, Social Security Works will always rise up and STOP any attempt to cut our earned benefits. Can you rush a donation to fight back against Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elon Musk’s anti-Social Security commission?
Before this House caucus assembled, Trump’s handpicked commission co-chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy told Republicans that no federal program is safe from cuts,3 “and that includes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.”
Since then, Musk, Ramaswamy, and Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeated their intention to use their effort to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid―despite Trump’s repeated insistence during the campaign that he would protect our Social Security system.
Vice President-elect JD Vance confirmed that Elon is looking at Social Security:4
“And the thing that’s complicated about this, man, is it’s going to look much different in, say, the Department of Defense versus Social Security.”
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune told NBC News:5
“Perhaps mandatory programs are areas that they're looking to make cuts in, like Social Security, for example.”
Ramaswamy told CNBC that they were looking for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and that they believe Trump can cut them without Congressional approval:6
“You look at the way in which that money is being spent through Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security…There are hundreds of billions of dollars of savings to extract just from basic program integrity measures.
“The executive branch has no obligation to send out a payment if it is wasteful or if it is known to be fraudulent or has a reason to believe that there is error associated with that payment.”
And Musk himself boosted a Twitter thread from Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, calling Social Security a “nightmare” and saying that “America’s century-long era of progressive government must be brought to a close.”7
Rep. Greene may believe that because Republicans won one election, they can do whatever they want. We’re rallying the American people to show that she’s WRONG, and if they try to cut Social Security there will be hell to pay. Can you rush a donation to fight back?
Thank you,
Alex Lawson
Social Security Works
1 https://x.com/SSWorks/status/1869387124417700031
2 https://bsky.app/profile/socialsecurityworks.org/post/3ldjp4i5ius23
3 https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-elon-musk
4 https://newrepublic.com/post/186059/jd-vance-reveals-trump-will-use-musk-target-social-security
5 https://x.com/SSWorks/status/1864760793142567196
6 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/cnbc-transcript-exclusive-doge-co-lead-author-and-former-us-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-speaks-with-cnbcs-eamon-javers-and-morgan-brennan-live-from-the-cnbc-cfo-council-summit-in-washington-dc-today.html
7 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1863777030766022779
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