Fifteen House Republicans warn Trump about Social Security cuts

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Fifteen House Republicans warn Trump about Social Security cuts

Fifteen Republican members of the House of Representatives have warned the Trump administration about the repercussions of further cuts to the Social Security Administration (SSA).Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been spearheading efforts to drastically reduce excess federal funding and waste by cutting agencies’ staff numbers and funding. Still, it is lawmakers who will have to answer to voters in their constituencies if services cease to function smoothly.The SSA announced in late February that it would reduce its “bloated workforce” by 12 percent from 57,000 employees to 50,000. This step attracted criticism from its former commissioner, Martin O’Malley, ..