Billionaire Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Social Security are reportedly causing disquiet among Republicans, who fear any cuts to the welfare service by his Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, will lead to disruption and inspire an angry backlash from their constituents.
DOGE is working to streamline the federal bureaucracy on behalf of President Donald Trump, and Musk has pledged to cut the Social Security Administration’s workforce by 12 percent as part of that mission, also assigning at least 10 staffers to comb through a huge database of citizens’ personal information in pursuit of fraudulent claimants.
