Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p><p>Current & former employees, both <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> & <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></a>, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/social-security-doge-ssa.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/17/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/social-security-doge-ssa.html</span></a></p><p>"Many current & former Social Security officials fear the cuts could create gaping holes in the agency’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a>, destabilizing the program, which keeps millions of people out of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>