Chuck Schumer Demands Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano Send DOGE Staffers 'Packing'

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During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about DOGE staffers remaining at the Social Security Administration despite Elon Musk's departure from the Trump administration.

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00:00On Social Security.

00:03Elon Musk might have been run out of town, but his handiwork lives on at the Social Security

00:08Administration.

00:09Remember he called Social Security a big Ponzi scheme?

00:12Well he's gone.

00:13But Social Security Administrator, newly put in, despite vehement opposition from Democrats

00:18because he's known as Mr. Causton Byrne, Frank Pizzignano said that, Musk or not, Doge

00:27will remain king at SSA.

00:29Doge.

00:30Remember that, folks?

00:32The chainsaw?

00:33Well, it's going to be alive and well at Social Security with Mr. Bizzignano in charge, Mr.

00:39Slash and Byrne, Mr. Cut, Cut, Cut.

00:42It's alarming that even after Elon Musk became persona non grata among Trump circles, the Social

00:49Security Administrator still wants to keep using his failed playbook to oversee senior's Social

00:56Security checks.

00:59Social Security is sacred in America.

01:01Even after Musk's departure, which occurred in part because of Doge's failure, this administration

01:07is talking about applying Doge strategies to Social Security, probably the most popular

01:12and Sanktorsak program passed in the last hundred years.

01:16It shows how the billionaires, like Elon Musk and Howard Blutnik, remember what he said?

01:21He said his mom could afford to miss a payment or two.

01:23It shows that these billionaires are running the show and they are callous and cruel.

01:27They have no understanding of how average senior citizens depend on that Social Security check.

01:33It's a disgrace and Donald Trump and his political cohort will pay a political price for endangering

01:41this popular program.

01:43It's nice to talk about efficiency, but by now we know there is nothing efficient about Doge.

01:49It led to closures, longer wait times on the phone, glitches online and an immense anxiety for seniors.

01:57Bizignano should send Doge staffers packing before they cause more trouble with seniors' Social Security benefits.

02:05Don't you think he's going to pay a deposit and have no help aten the catalog.

02:06Let him pay a lot.

02:07So that's a good fee and say, is it important to pay him to pay attention, yet?

02:10I don't know.

02:11But, to see, we have no money.

02:12It's going to pay attention, don't you?

02:13So that's what we say.

02:14That's what we can do, not to pay attention, it's going to pay attention to the record.

02:15So that's what we are getting forward to.

02:16I'm hoping to get through this.

02:17We'll be getting through it.

02:18I think we're getting through this number of years.

02:19You have to do the work that we can do with bolла, and we can do it.

02:21We can do that generally.

02:22We're getting through it.

02:23But, we're getting through it.

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