Social Security Employees are now on Trump's Chopping Block

 

Elon Musk has descended upon  Social Security with the same careless, ruthless abandon he has brought to every other Federal Agency.  An anonymous whistleblower stated the following actions have been taken against the Agency:

1.Probationary attorney-level decision writers who are responsible for assisting Administrative Law Judges were terminated and at a time when the agency has massive backlogs in cases at the Hearing level.

2. The new acting commissioner gloated about firing 14 employees as an "accomplishment" in his commissioner broadcast to the agency.

3. The entire office of Transformation, and its 60+ employees were dissolved. Their purpose was to promote agency-wide efficiencies and faster processing times through oversight over SSA systems and use of information technology.

4. The entire Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and its 190 employees  were dissolved, including the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Civil Rights.  OCREO conducts statutorily mandated requirements for employees and members of the public including the reasonable accommodation request process, the public facing discrimination complaint process, and the EEOC employment discrimination complaint process. The National RA Coordinator whose position was court ordered was also terminated.

5. Component heads and executives were told to draft plans to slash  Social Security Administration (SSA) by 50% and to reduce the total SSA workforce by seven to eight thousand.

6.SSA staff were sent an email threatening massive reorganization of SSA followed with significant workforce reduction.  The email pressured seasoned employees, even front-line employees, with monetary incentives to resign or take early retirement and threatened to fire employees for cause should they not retire or resign.

7. Executive staff responsible for overseeing regional field office operations were terminated. One region had all but 3 out of 72 staff members terminated and it is very likely that the other ten regions had similar terminations.  The regional executive offices oversee hundreds of field offices.

8. The Acting Commissioner sent out a memo to SSA staff indicating significant restructuring of the agency due to a "bloated workforce and organizational structure", even though staffing at SSA is the lowest it has been in 50 years. The reorganization includes taking the ten regions  that SSA serves and consolidating into four regions; and combining multiple  independent components together in an effort to "downsize"
 or "streamline."  This could potentially lead to massive closures in field offices, a reduction in services, and a significant number of terminations of agency employees.

9. Terminations are happening swiftly and often late in the day to avoid bringing attention to any media or congressional attention to their actions.

10.The trauma they are creating for SSA staff is unreal. According to the whistleblower at least three terminated SSA employees have committed suicide, one which the whistleblower personally knew.

 The Social Security Administration issued a Press Release on the Re-organization that claims a fifty percent workforce reduction is not accurate.  The press release which you can read  HERE  states that the SSA intends to reduce the workforce from 57,000 to 50,000 employees, a reduction of 7,000 jobs.

Do Not Kiss the Ring, Do Not Bend a Knee to the False King

Your country is invaded by a ruthless dictator.  His goal is to erase your national identity from the history of the world.  Your country is a democracy, built upon the same foundation as the great United States of America.  Freedom and liberty for all.  This dictator publicly declares he will wipe you off the face of the Earth in three days.  He makes clear to the world he won't stop there, he won't stop until the he has control of every country that was under his umbrella and then lost when the walls of Berlin fell.

You fight back. For three years you fight back.  The United States of America and the European Union provide weapons and training to you so you can fight this repressive ruler.  His name is Putin.  You' ve lost ground during those three years,  you've lost thousands of lives. Putin has turned your cities into rubble.

He has bombed your schools, your hospitals, your theaters, your shelters, your infrastructure, homes, apartments, playgrounds, and churches.  The definition for this is clear: genocide.

The people of the United States elect for the second time, a man who wants to be King, does not respect the rule of law, not does respect freedom and democracy- he only respects one thing: power.  He sends goons into every Federal agency to disrupt, and destroy their purpose.  He hires a billionaire to fire hundreds of thousands of workers in a slash and burn campaign of terror.  He celebrates his cruelty with a mock Times Magazine cover where he is depicted as King.  The definition of his actions is clear:  political genocide.

You visit the King, to sign an agreement on your natural resources, basically giving away a large portion of your natural resources that he never wanted, he simply demanded this from you because he could.  HIs name is Donald Trump and he is asking for the impossible and expecting a refusal.  Instead you negotiate a deal which is not what he ever wanted.  

You visit Trump and during a photo op, he attacks you, his vice president attacks you.  A kiss-ass reporter attacks your choice of clothing.  You are double-teamed and it is at this point you know for certain, the President of the United States is an asset for Putin, the dictator.   You are double-teamed, yelled at, questioned about your character- and you are the hero for your country.  

Fear not, President Zelensky.  Fight on, President Zelensky. The American people know what real sacrifice is,  we know what needs to be done.   We have deposed Monarchs before and we will do it again.  Thank you for not bending your knee to a false King. Thank you for not kissing his ring.  

We stand with Ukraine.