“Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,” Musk said. The national press office for the Social Security Administration could not be reached by Fortune for comment. When Americans retire, they collect their basic pension, the costs of which are fi...
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Elon Musk on Monday in an interview with Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow referred to federal spending on programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as areas that need to be eliminated. The Morning Joe panel discusses Musk's eyeing entitl
Elon Musk has recently made several claims that 150-year-olds are receiving Social Security benefits. So the CBS News Confirmed team looked for evidence of improper payments or potential fraud. CBS News Confirmed executive editor Rhonna Tarrant breaks down what they found....
Trump suggested that Cabinet and agency leaders would take the lead, but Musk could push harder down the line.If they can cut, its better. And if they dont cut, then Elon will do the cutting.He had said in the earlier post that Musk and Cabinet officials will meet every two weeks to ...
“What Musk has tweeted is not primarily an example of fraud but more like the messy databases kept by Social Security,” saidAlex Nowrasteh, the vice president for economic and social policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. Nowrasteh said when someone turns 100, the government manually...
The one sure way to guarantee Democrats will oppose something — anything, no matter how popular — is to have President Trump come out in favor of it. And this Pavlovian reaction was on full display when presidential adviser and multibillionaireElon Muskrecently called Social Security “the bigg...
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two peo...
Musk and his team "now have access to the personal information of every Social Security beneficiary — and the ability to stop payments for any federal programs they dislike," Max Richtman, CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, an advocacy group for the program...
“This is why the Democrats want to destroy me,” Musk says, previewing the clip, in which he explains a cynical view of the US political system where, he says, Democrats are plotting to use entitlement spending such as Social Security, Medicare and disability payments to lure undocu...