'He Has No Empathy': Chuck Schumer Slams 'Clueless' Elon Musk For Pushing Social Security Cuts

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During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about Elon Musk's push to cut Social Security.

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00:00President, yesterday it was reported that Elon Musk and Doge

00:04have been pressuring the Social Security Administration to cut phone services,

00:09phone services that millions of Americans rely on to help

00:13with their benefits, to help get their benefits

00:17on Social Security. Doge knows all their claims of massive fraud

00:22within Social Security are nonsense. So what do they do?

00:27They're trying to cut telephone services that help the elderly and disabled

00:32people get their benefits. How cruel. How mean. Why?

00:38So some billionaires can get another tax break? This is appalling.

00:42What Doge is doing to Social Security is not government efficiency,

00:47it's cruelty. Cruelty. It's a direct attack

00:52on some of our most vulnerable people, seniors and the disabled.

00:56Social Security support lines are vital for seniors who struggle to get out of

01:00the house. Many seniors don't have the ability to

01:03drive themselves to an in-person local office,

01:06many of which are closing. And if they can visit an office in person,

01:11guess what? Doge is working on closing the local

01:15offices too.

01:18It's almost as if cruelty is the point

01:23for Doge, Elon Musk. Elon Musk and Doge are trying to drive

01:29Social Security into the ground to make it so dysfunctional they can

01:33scream about fraud and justify cutting benefits. And for what?

01:37Giving billionaires another tax break. Remember what Elon Musk said a few days

01:43ago, most of the federal government's spending

01:46is entitlements, so that's the big one to eliminate.

01:50Imagine the cruelty of the richest man in the world

01:54who's trying to sell his Tesla's on the White House lawn,

01:58telling tens of millions of seniors that he wants to eliminate their benefits,

02:03that their checks are part of one big scam.

02:07Elon Musk is utterly clueless, clueless about what it means to rely on that

02:12$1,100 check that seniors need for their food or their

02:16medicines. He has no empathy, and that lack of

02:21empathy will create immense suffering for people who aren't as fortunate as

02:24he's been. That's why Doge has already pushed to

02:28close Social Security offices. They're getting ready to fire 7,000

02:33Social Security employees, and this is just the beginning.

02:36If Doge keeps going, people could see their benefits disappear.

02:41And my Republican colleagues, are my Republican colleagues fine with

02:46these attacks against Social Security? Do they support closing Social Security

02:51offices? Do they agree with Elon Musk that Social

02:54Security is a scam? Why are they silent as Elon Musk and

02:58Doge try to take Social Security apart? I yield the floor,

03:02note the absence of a quorum.

'He Has No Empathy': Chuck Schumer Slams 'Clueless' Elon Musk For Pushing Social Security Cuts

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