Martin O'Malley: “I want to thank you so much for holding this critically important hearing”

the agency would serve 7 million more beneficiaries with 7,000 fewer full-time staff than in FY 2015.

As the workloads go up, the demoralization becomes deeper, and people burn out and leave.

At this rate, they [DOGE] will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits.

They are driving people out there with a viciousness that I believe will collapse the agency…. We have a 50-year low in staffing while the Baby Boomer generation is swelling their ranks.