Source: Common Dreams
by Alex Lawson
“The Trump administration is lying about Social Security. Elon Musk’s DOGE has infiltrated the Social Security Administration (SSA). The agency’s new commissioner, Wall Street billionaire Frank Bisignano, calls himself ‘a DOGE person.’ His top lieutenants include long-time Musk associates Antonio Gracias and Aram Moghaddassi. After infiltrating Social Security, the DOGE crew forced out thousands of civil servants, including top leaders with decades of institutional knowledge. No problem, they thought. We’ll replace them with 19-year-old Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and an AI chatbot. That plan is going exactly as expected. Mistakes are being made, checks are being delayed, lines are hours long, and field offices are being run by skeleton crews. The 1-800 number has record wait times — if people can get past the AI chatbot and speak to a human at all.” (07/17/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/doge-attack-on-social-security