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Democratic legislators are furious for the “Doge Boys” and their recent repression against Federal ExpenditureCelebrating a demonstration outside the possible objective of the next objective of the newly formed cost reduction department: the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The Government Efficiency Department (Doge), directed by ELON ALMIZCLEHe has been working with federal agencies to identify and reduce waste spending. More recently, the group began to investigate the services centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for potential fraud, a measure that was not well received by Democratic legislators who warned that the SSA could be the next agency in the objective list.
On Monday, Senator Chris Van Hollen, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, rep. Kweisi Mfume, d-ma., Representative Johnny Olszewski, D-MA., And the rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-MA. The SSA headquarters in Baltimore to criticize Doge’s efforts.
“Every time you listen to Doge, the Government’s efficiency department, you just remember that it is the Government Department of Evil,” said Mfume, a Democrat based in Maryland.
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Representative Kweisi Mfume at a hearing at the Rayburn House office building in Capitol Hill on March 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Somodevilla chip)
Fox News Digital reported previously That according to the facts alone, a non -profit research institute, the SSA disbursed approximately $ 2 billion in fraudulent or inadequate payments in 2022, what it calculated was enough “to pay 89,947 workers withdrawn the annual average annual benefit of $ 21,924 by 2023. “
The Democrats, however, have affirmed that the benefits of the Social Security of the Americans could be attacked.
“We have a simple message, which is: Elon Musk, keep the hands of our Social Security,” Van Hollen told the crowd.
Senator Van Hollen told Musk to “keep his hands out of our Social Security.” (Getty images)
“In the last 21 days, we have seen Elon Musk making illegal raids in federal agencies with his Dux crew,” said the senator. “This is a recipe for the corruption of the Doge Boys.”
Senator Angela Alsobrooks, D-Ma., Speaking during the demonstration, said that “the intention of this administration is to make us feel demoralized, make many of us feel scared, incite fear, silence people.”
Many of Doge’s objectives have varied from canceling a series of initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in federal agencies until consolidating agencies and duplicate programs.
Angela Alsobrooks, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, and Governor Wes Moore, D-Md. on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Tom Williams)
Doge, at the end of January, said he was saving the federal government $ 1 billion per day, mainly “stopping the hiring of people in unnecessary positions, eliminating from Dei and stopping inappropriate payments to foreign organizations, all consisting of executive orders with executive orders “
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The efforts have been widely rejected by democratic legislators, who have been gathering outside Headquarters of the government agency in protest of the Doge agenda.
Andrew Mark Miller and Eric Revell de Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
