Elon Musk will decide the fate of Social Security and Medicare. Time to panic. Opinion

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-decide-fate-social-162043572.html

If you rely on Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid, it’s time to panic. If you care about your personal data – like your Social Security number or banking information – it’s also time to panic.

Thanks to President Donald Trump and the permissive Republican Party, billionaire weirdo Elon Musk and his band of random techies have likely accessed your most private information and have their disreputable mitts on the faucet from which vital government payments flow.

I’m guessing you didn’t vote for Musk to be given free rein over computer systems throughout the federal government that are normally handled by highly trained people who’ve cleared thorough background checks. Well, tough luck. Trump’s in charges and things like “rules” and “norms” and “laws” are for losers.

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Max Richtman, head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, wrote in a statement: “Social Security beneficiaries and their families have every reason to be alarmed by Elon Musk’s takeover of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s payment system, which is responsible for paying Social Security benefits. The unelected billionaire, who has no legal role in the U.S. government but heads Trump’s unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his newly-installed minions in the Treasury Department, now have access to the personal information of every Social Security beneficiary ‒ and the ability to stop payments for any federal programs they dislike.”

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