During remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about Trump's nomination of Frank Bisignano to lead the Social Security Administration.
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00:00And finally, on Mr. Bisgnano, to be head of the beleaguered Social Security Administration.
00:07We all know SSA, the Social Security Administration, is in a state of chaos,
00:11but instead of advancing someone who will bring order and stability to Social Security,
00:16Senate Republicans are backing a slash-and-burn billionaire CEO
00:19who will only pour gasoline into the Doge fires.
00:24Mr. Bisgnano has zero experience in government or with Social Security,
00:28but he has plenty of experience in cutting jobs and downsizing.
00:32He says of himself, I'm fundamentally a Doge person.
00:36That's who they want.
00:37Mr. President, American people, Republicans,
00:40you want someone who's a Doge person in charge of Social Security?
00:45My goodness.
00:46I can't think of a worse agency for Mr. Slash-and-Burn Bisgnano
00:51to lead the Social Security Administration.
00:54That's his nickname, Slash-and-Burn.
00:55Every single Senate Republican who votes yes on Mr. Bisgnano
01:00is voting yes to put Social Security benefits in jeopardy.
01:04Voting yes on Bisgnano means voting yes on continuing the wave of office closings and mass layoffs.
01:11And what they're doing in Social Security, Doge and the Trump people,
01:14they're afraid to say they want to kill it, so they try to strangle it,
01:18close offices, longer wait times, phone lines disrupted, e-mails disrupted.
01:23Mr. Bisgnano's nomination is another reminder
01:27that Donald Trump's chaos is made possible thanks to the complicity of Senate Republicans.
01:33They could stop the attacks by Doge if they wanted.
01:36They could haul terrible nominees if they wanted.
01:38But every Senate Republican,
01:40every time,
01:42who has a chance to side with the American people,
01:45instead sides with Donald Trump.
01:47They're doing it again with Mr. Bisgnano's resignation.
01:50The Senate should reject the nomination of Mr. Slash and Byrne,
01:56or else the chaos we've seen from Doge will only get worse.