Posted on Friday April 11, 2025
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by Shane Harris
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The elected democrats and many in the corporate media are trying to sow chaos and the confusion on the expected improvements of the Trump administration to the Social Security Administration (SSA). But the facts clearly indicate that these changes will make the agency more sensitive to beneficiaries while eliminating the mountains of fraud in the program.
The panic of manufactured social security began even before President Trump won the elections of last November, the liberal establishment saying that he wanted to “reduce social security” and kick the elderly. In reality, Trump has repeatedly promised to “do not touch” social security.
But lies and management errors have not become flagrant since Trump took up his duties, with each upgrade of how the program is managed and each revelation of fraud treated as being tearing the verification of grandmother from his hands.
The New York TimesFor example, recently allegedly allegedly alleged that there were “hasty changes and social security anxiety”. Initiate of Business I went with the title “Baby-boomers are preparing for the worst as reductions in social security services”, while Nowsweek was even more dramatic, to say that social security is in a “death spiral” and Axios told its readers that “the main social security mission was at stake”.
The truth is very different from this world of misfortune in which the media lives. Not only does the Trump administration protect the advantages of the elderly by eliminating fraud, but it has taken important measures to modernize SSA operations to better serve the beneficiaries.
For example, far from certain false media report that the SSA closes the field offices, the agency actually moves its staff to the phones that respond and take complaints in person, as well as the establishment of the overvoltage capacity to meet increased demand. Thanks to the executive action of President Trump forcing federal employees to return in person to the office five days a week, the beneficiaries can now count on the possibility of speaking face to face with SSA employees.
Unlike the statements that SSA reduces telephone services, the agency will also continue to process all types of complaints by telephone. Last month, SSA spent $ 16.5 million to modernize its telephone services nationally.
At the same time, thanks to new anti-fraud software, Americans who count on social security can be more confident than ever than their advantages will be delivered in time to the right person. This updated software allows the SSA to report abnormal behavior on a person’s account, requiring identity hair removal for reported individuals. Just as the identification of voters is a critical measure to protect the American elections, proof of identity will help to eliminate fraud in social security.
President Trump’s proposal to eliminate taxes on social security income is additional proof of how it is absurd to claim that his administration wants to “reduce” social security or endanger services. Excluding increases in the cost of living, the elimination of this tax would actually be the most important boost to the checks of the elderly in the history of the program.
What President Trump wants to eliminate is waste, fraud and social security abuses, which the Republicans and Democrats have done nothing – even if they have publicly recognized the problem and talked about doing something for decades. Despite the fact that Social Security headed for insolvency as early as 2033 (or if the Democrats have their way and added millions of illegal foreigners on the program), successive presidential administrations have allowed billions of fraud and inappropriate payments to go out each year.
For example, a report by the Inspector General of the SSA published last August, when Joe Biden was still in office, found $ 72 billion in inappropriate payments of the 2015 to 2022 exercises. This report also noted that previous audits have resulted in “dozens of recommendations for the agency to prevent
Elon Musk and his team Doge also identified enormous levels of potential fraud which represent an immediate threat not only for the portfolios of the Americans but also for democracy itself. Speaking during an event in Wisconsin earlier this month, Musk and venture capital Antonio Gracias shared a graph showing a dramatic peak in the number of new social security numbers published during the Biden administration.
“In 2021 you see 200,000 people (winning social security numbers),” said Musk. “It goes up to 2.1 million in 2024. These are non-citizens who obtain social security numbers.”
“It literally breathed us,” added Gracias. “If I hadn’t seen it myself, I’m not sure I thought it. I crossed it myself and I have mapped it. And Elon is right. It’s true … We found some by sampling who really voted. “
This is the real threat to Social Security – millions of people who should not be added to the program to advance a liberal political agenda while fraudsters upset taxpayers and democrats try to cover everything. But in our bizarre world where the media are professional cheers for the left, we are told that the efforts of the Trump administration to save social security from complete destruction are the problem.
The real loser of the war of disinformation of the left, as is the case so often, is the American people – and the American seniors in particular, while the Democrats seek to stir up the fears of reductions in services for their own political gain.
Shane Harris is the editor -in -chief of Amac Newsline. You can follow it on X @ shaneharris513.
