Mr. President, in just over 1 week, Elon Musk has vowed to use his DOGE chain saw to hang up all of the telephone services at the Social Security Administration that Grandma and Grandpa use to access Social Security benefits. That would be OK if computer-savvy Gen Xers were the Social Security recipients, but they are not. It is Grandma and Grandpa in their eighties and nineties, who didn't take a computer course 30 years ago. That is right. Musk and Trump are going to force Grandma and Grandpa to go online or drive to a field office if a field office is still even open. What if they can't use a computer? What if they can't drive themselves to a distant field office? How are they going to get their benefits? So my amendment just says: No. We are going to keep the phone lines open to answer the call when Grandma and Grandpa are on the line. The phone line is the lifeline for Grandma. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
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