Elon Musk says everything is fine. The lights are on. The system is functioning. The checks are coming. Nothing to see here.
But if you’ve called the Social Security office lately, you’ve heard the truth.
Three hours on hold. Or five. Or a cold recorded voice saying: call back later. Or not at all.
If you’ve walked into a field office, you’ve seen it: Lines that wind through chairs and down the block. Faces worn thin with waiting. Fewer staff who no longer have time. A system built to serve, starved and stalled.
If you are a woman—older, alone, widowed—you’ve felt it most. Because this was always the promise: work hard, raise your children, care for others, and when your hands finally shake and your back gives out, there will be something left for you.
That promise is being unmade in silence. And by design.
This is not a mistake. It’s a strategy.
Elon Musk and his DOGE agents arrived with blackout curtains and theft in their hearts. They came not to mend, but to break. To tear out the wiring, cut the phones, and purge the people who knew how to keep the Social Security machine running.
Trump and Musk are claiming fraud, but the real fraud is theirs. They dismantled customer service. They eliminated the office that tracked experience. They pushed out employees with decades of knowledge. And then they told us it was for our own good.
They’re not slashing checks—not yet. But they are building the scaffolding for it. They’re engineering a crisis—breaking the machine until the public says:
“It’s too big. It’s too slow. It’s time to privatize.”
And then they’ll hand the $2.6 trillion Social Security Trust Fund—the collective labor of generations—to the very billionaires who’ve orchestrated its undoing.
This is how systems fall. Not with a bang, but with a wait time. A jammed phone line. A closed office. A thousand small sabotages.
We are not powerless. We are not naive.
We are not going away.
This Feminist Majority Action Bulletin #2 is asking you to take one simple step.
Not symbolic. Not decorative. Strategic.
Call the LOCAL office of your Member of Congress. Not the Washington, D.C. office. The local office. That’s where your voice as a voter is heard loud and clear.
📞 HOW TO DO IT:
