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Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:31 AM Mar 25

Republicans Want Musk To Shut Up About Social Security - The Logical Leftist



According to NBC News; Allies of the President want Musk stop talking about the false claims of fraud, waste and abuse in the program.

A White House official told NBC News they understood people could be concerned if they “hear something on the news that Elon Musk is saying, that we should do something with Social Security,” but claimed Musk’s opinions about Social Security don’t weigh on Trump’s pledge to protect the program.

An unidentified Republican congressperson told NBC they wished, rather than the DOGE leader attacking the credibility of entitlement programs, that the White House would make a measured case for reform: “The last thing we need to talk about is disparaging the system. It’s not a Ponzi scheme, it’s just an entitlement program that needs to be reformed.”
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