In a series of fiery comments posted to X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was called out for lying about President Donald Trump’s stance on Social Security, with Schumer claiming that Trump wants to cut the program whereas, in reality, he wants to cut out the fraud.
As background, the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has been digging deeply into potential fraud at Social Security. In fact, the investigatory body has so far found that not only are there apparently a great many long-dead people on the Social Security rolls, but a foreign fraud gang has stolen perhaps a trillion dollars from it. Trump, for obvious reasons, wants to eliminate that fraud, not destroy the program.
Sen. Schumer, in any case, took to X to claim that Trump, in paring away the waste in staffing at Social Security, which will theoretically make the program more efficient and thus better able to pay out benefits, is cutting benefits. He said, “If you can’t get the Social Security you earned because Trump’s cutting Social Security staff—that’s a benefits cut.”
Sen. Schumer further claimed that delayed responses are benefit cuts and that Democrats, in fighting to keep more staffers attached to Social Security, are fighting for the program’s health, an absurd claim. He said, “If you can’t get answers to your questions or get an issue resolved because no one can take your call—that’s a benefits cut Dems are fighting for Social Security.”
Commenters hammered Sen. Schumer for his absurd claims. One, for example, said, “Schumer lies about SS “cuts.” H.R.251 mandates E-Verify to stop identity fraud draining resources. Illegals using stolen SS numbers strain the system, delay services for Americans. Trump’s plan: Cut waste, streamline ops, redirect funds from bureaucrats to services.”
Another commenter noted that Sen. Schumer and the Democrats have just routinely lied about the state of Social Security for decades, saying, “Why must you lie? You’ve lied about SS for decades! Every freaking election!!! Quit scaring people! Come up with a better solution! Decades in office not one YET?!!”
On much the same note, another commenter said, “You guys have been using the social security for your own personal slush fund. How many billions of dollars in fraudulent social security payments have gone out? Stop scaring our most vulnerable population with your propaganda. This has serious consequences.”
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Yet another commenter, more directly responding to Sen. Schumer’s claim, noted that cutting away the waste and corruption will aid the program, not harm it. That commenter wrote, “No Chuck, they’ll end up getting way more now that they’re removing all of the corruption people like you have been benefiting from for decades.” Agreeing, a commenter on that post said, “If we don’t get it, it’s because our politicians used our money for what it was not intended. This guy has some nerve.”
Also more relevant to Schumer’s claims was a commenter who noted that the “ifs” he was using to fearmonger don’t even seem to be occurring, making the whole claim pointless. That commenter said, “I don’t know one person that’s lost their social security yet you keep puking up this same lie. Don’t your people ever get tired of lying?”
Watch Trump call out the troubling fraud at Social Security below: