John,

Last night, Semafor news posted a headline that made my blood run cold:¹

The story reports that Elon Musk’s team that illegally shuttered USAID and has fired more than a thousand people from the EPA is heading for the Social Security Administration next.

Our Social Security system has paid benefits in full and on time for nearly a century―through wars, depressions, and pandemics. Yet Elon Musk is going to unleash his team of teenagers to dismantle it.

We are fighting back! On Capitol Hill and in the streets, Social Security Works is ringing the alarm. Can you rush a donation to save our Social Security system from Elon Musk?

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Musk’s team has already started re-writing the code on computers that issue payments. His apologists in Congress say that the plan is to break everything, and then only rebuild:

I think there’s an impulse to clean house, and to maybe freeze funding now. And then, if something’s really important, it will distinguish itself, and we’ll bring it back online … You’ve got to just move fast, integrate fast, and then fix it as you go.

Donald Trump has empowered Elon Musk to play Russian Roulette with our earned benefits. For at least one-eighth of retirees, Social Security provides over ninety percent of their income. They can’t afford to wait for Elon to fix something that isn’t broken in the first place.

Social Security works. Period.

We cannot allow the richest man in the world to endanger the benefits that we all depend on.

If you can afford to, please rush $7 to protect our Social Security system from Elon Musk and Donald Trump!

Thank you,

Alex Lawson
Social Security Works

¹ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/inside-doges-march-with-the-social-security-administration-soon-to-come