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Social Security
May 22, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Social Security Head Bragged About Having to Google Own Job
Frank Bisignano is clueless and proud of it.
May 22, 2025
Timothy Noah
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail
Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
May 16, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust
Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
May 14, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Prized Tax Bill Doesn’t Do Anything He Promised
Donald Trump’s pet “big beautiful bill” conveniently leaves out some major campaign promises.
April 24, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Comes Up With New Plan to Gut Social Security
Trump’s team has just paved the way for mass layoffs at the Social Security Administration.
April 18, 2025
Marin Scotten
Trump Kicks Citizen Off Social Security in Anti-Immigrant Purge
Donald Trump has sought to punish immigrants by booting them off Social Security.
April 16, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Ramps Up War on Democratic Governor
Maine Governor Janet Mills is refusing to bow to Donald Trump, and he is losing it.
April 11, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Has Despicable New Way to Carry Out His Deportations
Donald Trump’s latest plan to kick immigrants out of the country is unbelievably cruel.
April 7, 2025
Marin Scotten
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Sending Social Security Into “Death Spiral”
People are warning that the crucial agency is collapsing.
April 3, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Poll: Americans Are Terrified About Social Security
As Donald Trump destroys the economy, anxiety about the future of Social Security is higher than it has been at any point since the Great Recession.
April 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor
Maine Governor Janet Mills stood up to Donald Trump, and he can’t get over it.
March 25, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security
DOGE cuts are making the Social Security Administration fall apart.
March 20, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Judge Kicks DOGE Out of Social Security in Huge Blow to Elon Musk
Musk has been working to gut the Social Security Administration.
March 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Unleashes Utter Chaos by Releasing JFK Files
Here’s what Donald Trump really revealed by releasing the files about John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
March 17, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Memo Reveals Plan to Throw Social Security Into Chaos
An internal document from the Social Security Administration warned staff there would be a “strain” on resources.
March 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Republican Warns Against Cutting Medicaid for Sickest Reason
A Republican operative accidentally revealed what the party really thinks.
March 12, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
DOGE Is Pressuring Social Security to Make Another Massive Cut
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to make it harder for people to access their Social Security benefits.
March 11, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republican Just Says Flat Out They’ll Cut Medicare
Representative Mark Alford apparently learned nothing from the protests at his town halls.
March 11, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block
The DOGE chief has revealed his true goals in a Fox News interview.
March 7, 2025
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Transcript: Musk’s Attack on Social Security Exposed in Shocking Leak
An interview with Tracey Gronniger, a leading advocate for social insurance, who argues that Musk’s ransacking of Social Security is getting worse—and will prompt a major political backlash.

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