Former Social Security commissioner flames Muskâs 19-year-old DOGE ânitwitsâ
The former commissioner of the Social Security Administration on Tuesday ripped into â??co-presidentsâ? Donald Trump and Elon Musk, along with DOGEâ??s band of â??19-year-old nitwits,â? and called them the â??biggest threatâ? to the continued existence of the 90-year-old program so critical to millions of Americans.
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The former commissioner of the Social Security Administration on Tuesday ripped into âco-presidentsâ Donald Trump and Elon Musk, along with DOGEâs band of â19-year-old nitwits,â and called them the âbiggest threatâ to the continued existence of the 90-year-old program so critical to millions of Americans.
Martin OâMalley, a former governor of Maryland who ran the agency during the last year of the Biden administration, mocked Muskâs claims that millions of âzombiesâ from the age of 100 to 159 are collecting Social Security benefits.
âHe has no idea what heâs talking about,â OâMalley told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez.
âThere is not like a zombie apocalypse of people, cadavers running around with Social Security checks coming out of their pockets,â OâMalley scoffed.
He acknowledged there is some abuse in the massive system that involves 72.5 million people, but itâs minor.
âSometimes really desperate people will try to hide the fact that grandma died so they get a couple more checks,â OâMalley said. But he insisted itâs more common that peopleâs benefits are mistakenly cut off.
Musk and Trump âkeep throwing stuff out on Twitter that they can never back up,â OâMalley added.
âThese 19-year-old nitwits from DOGE that are violating the law and plucking peopleâs ... personal identifying information, they donât know what theyâre looking at,â he added.
OâMalley was referring to Muskâs identified cadre of barely-out-of-college (one only a high school grad), young techies with little work experience, and no indication they have any familiarity with accounts and bookkeeping. Yet Musk claimed Monday they uncovered some $4 trillion dollars in untraceable payments in the Treasury Department in an astounding matter of weeks.
The âbiggest threat ... to Social Security,â OâMalley argued, âis that the co-presidents are going to drive out another 10,000 people from an agency thatâs already buckling under a 50-year low in staffing [and] an all-time high in customersâ as the massive generation of Baby Boomers age.
OâMalley also blasted Musk and DOGEâS efforts to access highly personal information about millions of Americans. If any unauthorized Social Security employee tried to do the same it would be a âfireable offenseâ and often also subject to criminal prosecution, he noted.
âWe canât do that [now] because the co-presidents whacked all of the inspector generals whose job it is to police against waste, fraud, and abuse,â he said.
âSo there is abuse going on and itâs all being committed by the 19-year-old nitwits ... empowered by Elon Musk and Donald Trump.â
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