This administration and its Doge workers have tried to make it harder to access benefits or to receive assistance because of their Efforts. Phone lines are long and the websites keep crashing. They have worked to close field offices and cut 7,000 staff at a time when staffing is at a 50 year low. Social Security employees, we have as many now as we had 50 years ago. And believe it or not, 10,000 people are turning 65 today, April 22, 2025. (05:47–06:00)
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Asserts that 7,000 Social Security staff have been cut, reducing staffing to a 50-year low.
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