Social Security Staff Worried Elon Musk's Meddling Is Going to Accidentally Crash the Whole System

Elon Musk and his Department of Government of Efficiency are tearing through the Social Security Administration, vowing to root out fraud and to rewrite the entire system's code in a matter of months. And behind the scenes, they're also gutting the teams that run it, leaving employees terrified that it'll be sent into a "death spiral." "Until they get rid of DOGE and the person in office right now, and the Republicans actually get a backbone and stand up for something for once in their lives, things are just going to be complete chaos," a longtime worker at the agency told The Guardian. "That's really the best word to describe SSA right now, just complete, utter chaos." Mirroring the fate of other agencies, the changes to the SSA will be sweeping and crushing. Under the Trump administration's directive, the SSA is slated to eliminate over 7,000 employees, reducing its total workforce to around 50,000. This jeopardizes the stability of the largest government program in the US, dwarfi ... Read full article.