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Yes, Trump Really Does Want to Kill Social Security<\/h3>\n

How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

That might be humorous except that DOGE\u2014a creature of the right wing\u2019s\u00a0Project 2025<\/a>\u2014has been devastating to millions of people. And it\u2019s about to get worse. Elon Musk\u2014the flighty, \u00fcberrich autocrat put in charge of \u201cefficiency\u201d by his buddy Trump\u2014is now going after the Social Security deposits of\u00a073 million senior citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But wait, hasn\u2019t Trump himself promised\u2014loudly and often\u2014that he would not ax this essential retirement program? Yes, but Musk is his \u201cgotcha.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than an honest kill, Musk is trying to strangle the program with, believe it or not, bureaucratic red tape. Claiming to be cutting waste, he\u00a0eliminated<\/a>\u00a0the jobs of 7,000 people who administer the program, shouting, \u201cBureaucratic excess!\u201d Except Social Security is actually a renowned model of government efficiency, spending\u00a0less than 1 percent<\/a>\u00a0of its revenue on administration. So, by whacking the people who do the work, Musk is actually whacking the people who are due to receive their earned benefits.<\/p>\n

He also decreed that the public could no longer apply for benefits or resolve questions over the phone and would have to travel in person to some distant Social Security office. But the staff there was also decimated, so the people who came from afar were told to go back home and call for an appointment.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s at work here is a Musk-Trump ploy to wreck Social Security\u2019s remarkable record of efficiency. Their intent is to make the service so bad that they can then let profiteering corporations privatize your retirement.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, due to public backlash, the Trump Administration\u00a0backed off<\/a>\u00a0the in-person requirements. But that doesn\u2019t mean they won\u2019t try something else equally nefarious.<\/p>\n

Should America\u2019s Farm Bill Serve Need or Greed?<\/h3>\n

The federal budget is not only about money, but also our country\u2019s morality\u2014our commitment to fairness, equality, and unity.<\/p>\n

That brings me to our nation\u2019s farm bill. This\u00a0sprawling piece of legislation<\/a>, updated every five years, intends to combine the interests of farmers with consumers, production with conservation, grassroots cultures with corporate systems, and more. It\u2019s not easy. In fact, it\u2019s downright messy.<\/p>\n

But now, with plutocratic ideologues and culture warriors dominating their caucus, Republican lawmakers have not even been able to produce an agreement among themselves, so the comprehensive farm bill that America needs is a year overdue and no longer being pursued by the party in charge.<\/p>\n

Instead, the GOP chair of the House Committee on Agriculture, Glenn Thompson, of Pennsylvania, is jerry-rigging a stripped-down sham of a bill limited to the two spending priorities of MAGA Republicans: First, hand out billions more of our taxpayer dollars to subsidize agribusiness giants and rich speculators who own the biggest farms, mainly because they\u2019ll then keep funding and voting for Republicans. Next, whack America\u2019s poorest families. Thompson is banking on the minginess of extremist Republicans who oppose the Department of Agriculture\u2019s\u00a0programs to fight hunger<\/a>, which help 40 million poverty-stricken Americans\u2014including one in five children\u2014afford the groceries they need.<\/p>\n

So there we have the GOP\u2019s farm bill ethics: Cut the poor to give more to the rich in order to buy votes for more of the same. One word for this is \u201ccorrupt.\u201d Also, \u201ccruel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, it takes an exceptional level of political shamelessness to steal food from the hungry in order to fatten some of the richest people in our country. To fight their depravity, go to\u00a0ruralorganizing.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, Trump Really Does Want to Kill Social Security How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency.\u201d That might be humorous except that DOGE\u2014a creature of the right wing\u2019s\u00a0Project 2025\u2014has been devastating to millions of people. And it\u2019s about to get worse. Elon Musk\u2014the flighty, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[14720,6795,121533,11339,11337,12795,6021,36588,52137,93189,2083,2764,10974,47544,52134],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-290175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-agriculture","tag-bill","tag-corrupts","tag-cuts","tag-doge","tag-donald-trump","tag-farm","tag-gop","tag-jim-hightower","tag-june-july-2025","tag-magazine","tag-security","tag-social","tag-social-security","tag-vox-populist"],"yoast_head":"\nDOGE Cuts Social Security; GOP Corrupts the Farm Bill - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=290175\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DOGE Cuts Social Security; GOP Corrupts the Farm Bill - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes, Trump Really Does Want to Kill Social Security How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency.\u201d That might be humorous except that DOGE\u2014a creature of the right wing\u2019s\u00a0Project 2025\u2014has been devastating to millions of people. 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