Senator Bernie Sanders (i-VT.) Dug on Monday in Elon Musk about the billionaire’s attempts to undermine benefit programs such as social security with his conversations about wasteful expenditure in the federal government.
“Why do you make it look like it’s a broken, dysfunctional system? The reason is to allow people to lose confidence in the system and then you can surrender to Wall Street, “Sanders said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
His criticism comes after Musk, in an interview with Larry Kudlow from Fox Business Network, entertained “rights” cuts on the government such as social security, medicine and medicaid.
The billionaire said Kudlow that there was “waste and fraud in the expenditure on rights” and called it the “big to eliminate” in the federal budget.
Sanders, in his interview with Cooper, turned to Plans to reduce half of the workforce of the Social Security Administration In the midst of Musk’s cost-saving crusade with the unofficial Ministry of Efficiency of the government.
“That would be a disaster,” said Sanders, who added that millions of people will call their benefits in order not to get an answer. “
“So if you ask me, I think this is a prelude, not only for reducing benefits, but also to privatizing social security itself. I think that is in mind, if you make the system dysfunctional, why would someone want to support it? “
Musk, elsewhere in his FOX Business Network -appears, that Democrats use government rights as a “mechanism” to attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them “to become voters.
President Donald Trump has Recently sworn – and repeatedly promised on the campaign track – that he would not touch any benefits such as social security or Medicare in the midst of cuts.
Musk and Trump have pushed the false, invalidation that millions of dead people benefit from social security.
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Sanders previously noted in his interview with Cooper that the world’s richest man has called social security a ‘ponzi schedule’ and that the SSA is currently understaff Because an estimated tens of thousands of Americans have died In anticipation of a decision about benefits.