'Mr. Slash-And-Burn': Chuck Schumer Rails Against Trump's Social Security Nominee Frank Bisignano

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During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about President Trump's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano.

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00:00On the Bisignano nomination. Today, Senate Republicans will vote to advance

00:09Frank Bisignano to lead the Social Security Administration. Frank Bisignano

00:14has an ominous reputation. He is Mr. Slash and Burn. Bisignano equals slash

00:20and burn when it comes to companies and now when it comes to the Social Security

00:25Administration. Everywhere he goes, every company he's been part of, he slashes and

00:30burns. So I can't think of a worse agency for Mr. Slash and Burn Bisignano to lead

00:36than the Social Security Administration. Every single Republican who votes yes on

00:43Bisignano is voting yes to act Social Security. The Social Security Administration

00:49is already in chaos. Knowing how popular it is, the Trump Administration doesn't say

00:54outright they want to kill it. Instead they want to strangle it. Fewer offices, fewer

01:00people in the offices, trying to take away phone lines, trying to take away email.

01:06Strangle it because they know it's too popular to say they're going to kill it

01:11directly. But already because of their actions, because of the Trump

01:15Administration, Doge, Musk, the Social Security Administration is already in

01:19chaos. People's benefits are already in danger of being delayed. Wait times over

01:26the phones are getting longer. Fed field offices are shutting down. Employees are

01:30getting fired. Staffing is at a 50-year low. Chaos. In the last place you need it, the

01:36Social Security Administration. Doge says, Musk says they want to get rid of waste.

01:42There's no waste here. Social Security is one of the leanest operations there is. But

01:49they just want to kill it and probably eventually privatize it. The hard right

01:52wing, which hates all government, wants to take this crown jewel that Americans have

02:00and love Social Security and privatize it. That's what some of them want to do if you

02:06read some of these academic papers. No way we're going to fight that tooth and nail.

02:12We'll stop that. Republicans have a choice when it comes to this nominee. To

02:17confirm him is to be complicit in dismantling Social Security. They should

02:22vote against moving forward today.

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