The Daily Mail reports that former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O'Malley is warning that Social Security will implode in the next 30 to 90 days if Trump and DOGE are not stopped. In comments to Congress, he stated that "if you do not stop Trump, Social Security administrators and employees are going to do everything they can to disrupt Social Security payments and create a public firestorm so bad you will think that Hell has opened its mouth and swallowed you whole." Okay, he didn't exactly say that, but that is the message he intended to convey.
We should expect a lot more of this doomsaying for the rest of Trump's term. But the Democrats and the administrative state created this situation. As John Wilder points out in his latest post, Trump came into his first term intending to use a fiscal scalpel to cut out waste. But the Democrats came back at him multiple impeachment attempts, baseless criminal and civil suits, and finally tried to kill him. So this time, he has come with an axe to take to the administrative state. John goes on:
A century of rot, non-American ideologues and secrets are being sliced away. There will be chaos, as we find that, “Oh, no, we really needed to have air traffic controllers” and as this necessarily blunt instrument hacks through some good things to save the whole.
It’s ugly. It’s necessary. And it might just be enough.
But Trump's purpose is not to cut off Social Security benefits to retirees or the disabled. He is here to try and save the country before it slides into a fiscal collapse.
He really is trying. I'm watching the speech tonight - best of his career.
ReplyDeleteIt should be a lesson that the Democrats, for the most part, couldn't bring themselves to clap for anything, even the boy with cancer being made an honorary member of the Secret Service. Except that Pocahontas clapped when Trump called her out. I guess her lying about her heritage to get ahead under "equal rights" laws made her proud.
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