John,

Billionaires Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy have big plans for 2025. They’ve come up with a plan to enact a giant package of spending cuts―including cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

This scheme is just the latest in a long line of plots from the ultra-rich to set up a closed-door fast-track process for cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security Works was founded to defeat commissions like the Musk-Ramaswamy one. We beat Bowles-Simpson. We beat the Supercommittee. We can beat this one too―but only with your help. Can you donate $7 or more before midnight tonight?

Musk and Ramaswamy told Republicans on Capitol Hill that no federal program is safe from cuts, "and that includes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid."¹

Since then, Musk, Ramaswamy, and Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeated their intention to use the committee 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:²

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:³

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:⁴

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 thread from Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, which called Social Security a “nightmare” and said that “America’s century-long era of progressive government must be brought to a close.”⁵

This fight is why Social Security Works exists. If we can count on you to fight with us, we will win. Can you make a donation before midnight tonight?

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Thank you,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works

¹ https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-elon-musk
²
https://newrepublic.com/post/186059/jd-vance-reveals-trump-will-use-musk-target-social-security
³ https://x.com/SSWorks/status/1864760793142567196
⁴ 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
⁵ https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1863777030766022779