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DOGE Orders Layoffs at Social Security, Plans to Gut IT Team as Website Continually Breaks: Report
An already weakened agency workforce will be severely culled in the coming weeks, per DOGE's orders.
The DOGE team did not provide a specific number of jobs that must be eliminated, officials said, but asked for staff reductions to broad areas of operation, including communications, personnel, legislative and congressional affairs, retirement and disability policy, and other “support components.” He has promised to protect Social Security, and every recipient will continue to receive their benefits.” While failing to dispute anything specific in the Post report, the government further stated that there are currently no finalized RIF (reduction in workforce) plans and that the SSA was merely evaluating the next steps. If the Trump administration manages to cripple America’s Social Security system while also yanking trillions of dollars out of Americans’ 401ks via an ill-advised, stock-market-killing trade war, it will have effectively nullified the entire concept of “retirement” for the foreseeable future.
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