Whether or not Elon Musk does step down as chainsaw-er-in-chief in the weeks ahead, the Social Security Administration (SSA) may be on the way to spoiling a perfect record of having sent out benefit checks every month since the very first one on Aug. 14, 1935.
“The Trump co-presidency is gutting this agency,” former SSA Administrator Martin O’Malley told the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Tuesday. “It is breaking it from within, and it ultimately will lead to cascading failures, interruptions and system shutdowns that will eventually and I think within the next couple of months lead to benefit interruptions for the first time in 90 years.”
O’Malley, also a former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor, happened to be addressing the committee the same day as a Wisconsin state supreme court election that was the most expensive judicial race in state history. Musk was seeking to buy it with record campaign cash while peddling some of the very falsehoods that O’Malley feels are aimed at wrecking the agency he headed until four months ago.
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