Political Quotes

“Madam President, Social Security is under attack. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE are revving up their chain saw and coming after America's earned Social Security benefits. They are cutting staff, slashing services, closing offices, and lying about the program. Ten days from now, the DOGE chain saw is threatening to cut phone services at the Social Security Administration--cutting the phone services at the Social Security Administration--jeopardizing benefits that seniors earned through a lifetime of work. In 2023, do you know how many people died waiting for their Social Security benefits? It was 30,000--30,000 Americans. What do we think now about doing away with 1-800 phone service, and what will that do to wait times that are already too long? Yesterday, I just decided to get on and to dial 1-800 to just see how long it would take for a U.S. Senator to be able to connect with the Social Security Administration. It was a half hour, it was an hour, and then they just said there is at least a 2-hour wait. Well, for Grandma and Grandpa, we just don't want them waiting a couple of hours or more in order to get the information they need about--for most of them or a lot of them--the only check in their life, the only thing that gives them the capacity to be able to pay for the groceries, the rent, or even for phone service. But at the Social Security Administration, over the last 8 weeks, it is now: 1-800, dial the number, and then just wait.…”