Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.
What the ever loving HELL???
See. This has to be stopped.
X is not a form of public media or a legitimate government communication vehicle. This just has to be illegal for a government agency. Communications can’t be restricted to a for profit social media platform owned by the guy who bought the president.
Official Social Security communications should be on its official site. No way should it be on any social media as the source of truth.This is HEINOUS. Plus, a lot of seniors wouldn’t see it on Twitter/X because they don’t use it much anymore as it’s a cesspool nowadays,not because they’re Luddites
Posting on X where they can be radicalized by the very Nazis they fought against. Fuck Elon
End Elonia’s existence
At this point, it’s a declaration of war against American citizens. Treat them appropriately.
JFC
I chose e-mail. That’s the only logical secure option for such information.
Forcing more people on X so he can spread more propaganda, steal personal info and train his AI models. So terribly corrupt
He's ensuring that he can tarnish his brand as much as he wants, and it won't fail. He's a grifting POS.
Democrats should copy and post all social security updates from X to other social media accounts so people SSA recipients don’t have to go onto that hell site.
Is this true? How can we find out?
What are u gonna do about?
I'm perfectly fine with this. This is what they voted for. They cheered and pushed and posted for this ONLY because they were CERTAIN it wouldn't hurt them personally. They refused to listen. Actively argued against ANYONE who told them otherwise. They wanted this. Let the leopard feast.
My mom, who is 82, is losing sleep about these changes to Social Security. She and most of her friends are terrified. We can't wait until this goes all to hell or until the mid-terms to do something. We need Congress to push back hard. We need to help seniors fight back.
WTH???
And what is Congress doing about it? People have lost a lot of their retirement thanks to tariff stunts and now they’re going to lose their social security. And no one is stopping him. Who thought having a dictator in the US would be so easy?!
The problem is Trump "owns" the majority in Congess. So while plenty of democratic heroes are working their butts off, theyre massively outnumbered and outpowered
Deport Musk to Mars.
That is wrong on so many levels.
I should not have to sign up for a private app run by a repugnant individual to receive SS updates. I also should not have to watch two billionaires destroy Social Security.
I am not going on X. I don’t even go to Facebook if a company says that is where I have to go to get information.
tired of winning yet ? an absolute abomination
What are you doing about that?
No, I don't want to download his app to access information that should be readily available to me!
Oh I’ll believe that when I see it.
Quit with the sternly worded posts. It's illegal. DO SOMETHING.
This is horseshit! This must be blocked! The platform is loaded with right-wing hate, Russian bots, and just fElon controled bias. Fight this!!! #NoElon
Senator, I agree it's corrupt, cruel and wrong. May I add evil. But how much corrupt, cruel and wrong is the Senate going to stand for. You are not helpless here
They’re trying to privatize this. I just paid $6000 towards my Social Security and he’s gonna dole it out like it’s welfare? Yeah fuck that.
Please tell me this will be fought tooth and nail! Everything this corrupt administration is doing must be stopped.
Maybe posting about it on an alternative social app isn't the best play?
Immoral.
They’re abandoning their website?
Is this a joke!!!???!!! It’s like an April Fools prank a week late. I want my info from the GOVERNMENT not some privately owned social media that posts more lies than truth.
The government is currently the same people, tbf. Thats thie biggest problem
I'm now on Soc Sec I was stalked and hounded, accused of illegal activity on X for almost a year by an individual who just opened new account after new account when I blocked him. X would do nothing to stop it. I deleted my account in 2021. I'm not getting SSA 'updates' on that trash site. Never.
This, of course, is an effort to force people to X. I think Congress needs to enact a law requiring all Federal agencies to post all official communications on their official websites. They are free to repost these communications to social media sites and if so must use multiple sites.
HOW IS THIS LEGAL????
Are we still asking this? I feel like this could be painted on the White House at this point.
Unacceptable on all fronts
Senior here on social security and I won’t be going to X , as it is owned by a white supremacist.
And we like the butterfly better!
The only remarkable thing about the corruption and cronyism in our government isn’t the scale of it, but rather the “in your face” lack of shame by which they are promoting acts that are designed to hurt or disenfranchise so many people.
fractally corrupt.
We know this. We want to know what Congress is doing about it.
Was truth social too much of a conflict of interest?
I just wrote my congressman asking him to put a stop to it.
This will leave so many vulnerable elderly people open to being scammed by the many nefarious scumbags who have found sanctuary on that appalling site. Utterly disgraceful.
I’m 66 and blocked from the hellsite. Why would we have to use X, it’s not a government website.
That's ridiculous. Social Security has its own website. I canceled my account on X. No court is going to uphold this B.S. Social Security can send mailings to senior citizens if need be. Not one cent of my money or one minute of my time will be used on any possession/company of the IgnoraMusk.
Don’t people have to pay to subscribe to X? Seniors who need access to their Social Security Accounts don’t necessarily use computers or social media. People who are blind? A minor eligible to receive Survivor benefits can not transact on line! Worried about DEI? Musk wants vulnerable people to DIE!
How is this acceptable?
Not acceptable. SSA traffic does not belong on a biased personal platform. At a minimum, that sort of traffic would have to be made available simultaneously on ALL platforms.
X can block users That's denial of government service
Corey is my Senator here in NJ!!! ❤️
Senator Booker, I worry about everyone on Social Security. We paid into it for decades from our OWN paychecks 😔. Without it, my quality of life will go down Drastically. NJ RESIDENT. Trump admin is picking our pockets. Will miss SS informative mail 📬 to us😔.
Wow! I really don't know how you can keep up with everything this administration throws out. It's a game of whack-a-mole.
Thats their strategy. Nonstop onslaught of evil so noone can keep up enough to do anything. By the time you get a process start for evil act 1, THEYRE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVIL ACT 30
So Cory, now that you’ve rested from your speech, how is the Senate going to stop mandating public communications go solely through a private company owned by the guy slashing the personnel who do the public communication for retirees, the disabled, and their heirs?
Great idea… talking to all five of the seniors on X will solve everything. Fuck that asshole. I still won’t sign up for X.
Someone should tell congress.
Disgraceful! Breaking promises to America's seniors who paid into the system their whole lives expecting to be able to age out with some dignity.
I called representative Michael McCaul's Austin office to discuss this & they hung up on me. I've tried to call his DC office for months & no one answers or the answering machine is full. Calling Cornyn & Cruz is equally useless.
We have to fight this. This is dystopian shit.
How many federal subsidies is this now for Elon?
He is the welfare queen the racist gop used to fear monger about it’s just corporate welfare though which is way more insidious than personal welfare but you never hear the gop yelling about that
As a 79 yo SS recipient, I'm sure as hell not & never going on X. Will someone, please, collect the SS messages and post them somewhere where the non-X can get them?
My father is 70, recently retired, worked with his hands all his life as a public servant, and hates computers. There's no damn way millions of people like him will ever get this information. Thank you.
I think that’s the point. The administrations primary is to murder Americans and make billionaires into trillionaires. That’s it.
Please fight this, make something to stop it .
So what are you doing about it?
So people have to belong to X to find updates to Social Security ? I do not have or want to belong to Musk social media. How is a government run program go to a none government platform ?
Fight harder @booker.senate.gov . You already know what needs to be done.
No no no
This is an insane conflict of interest. He’s awarding himself spacex contracts and making his platform the sole source for government information. Someone needs to wake up the republicans in Congress.
**Only** use Blue Sky.
Oh the corruption is just off the charts. Someone needs to charge both Musk and Trump. How more obvious does it need to be - the guy working for trump (despite being never elected nor confirmed) is giving himself govt contracts. Is there a different definition of corruption?
Why wouldn’t this be illegal? To force people onto a platform for their own information. When it’s already on one that they know and use. Can you say “monopolize?”
I’m on SSDI and even I don’t use twitter/X. This also is an extremely bad idea security wise!
What are we doing about this?!?!
How can this be legal? Posting our personal information from a government agency on to a social platform run by a power hungry billionaire? We entrusted our money to a government run fund not to Elon musk. The government is controlled by the people not musk, trump & doge.
DOGE is not even a recognized department in our government. This is OUTRAGEOUS!
Of course it's not legal. Has that ever mattered to Trump or Musk?
Emphasis on *our money*. Also, the amount of evil on Twitter currently egregious, with no oversight, but the number of scammers and fraudsters who will descend on the site specifically to target the desperate older folks, the disabled, and survivor recipients will be unimaginable.
Surely there is language in even a single law to challenge this tactic of making it arduous if not impossible to contact what remains of the Social Security Administration @booker.senate.gov ?
Authoritarian Fascists don’t care about the law.
So we need a party external to the US to fix this, since there's now nobody remaining in the US that have the position and power to fight it?
We don’t use the site owned by the muskrat! It is not a secure gov website to find updates. We the people will fight you! SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY. Seriously, 🐘 do not continue to come at us with your fucking bullshit cuts. #HANDSOFF #BLUE.WAVE.RISING
Yes. Blast this info everywhere you can !!!
@booker.senate.gov Seriously, isn't this illegal? What can we do besides call our state representatives? Flood the WH with calls? Flood Mike Johnson's office?
How do we fight back and stop this bullshit??? Muskrat's losing many X users because of the vitriol and rightwing disinformation. Any anti- trump/musk/Republican talk gets you thrown off. WE CANNOT LAY DOWN AND ACCEPT!
Looks like they’ve walked back on it. Apparently, they are claiming the story was never true. Right. Couldn’t be the bad publicity. 🙄
I'm sure my May 16th appointment at a regional office is gonna go great.
bring food, water and patience
This is corrupt self dealing. It's illegal. Why is Musk getting away with it?
Wrong! They are forcing people to open a Twitter account.
Democrats should set up a separate site that communicates SSA announcements for all. This is a do-something opportunity
I am for that.
Prosecuting political criminals is what needs to happen.
Just say they are "shutting down Social Security" so Elon can get a tax cut. To the vast majority of Americans these moves are effectively shutting it down, so just put it and simply and bluntly as possible. If GOPers want to dispute it, let them try.
You have to stop this Senator.
We need a class action lawsuit to protect all of our data what law firms will step up and represent all of us even those who voted for this insanity!!
This is ridiculous! How can they get away with this?! Oh, I know. Most Dems just roll over and even vote with them like on the SAVE Act
Good god. This is so cruel to our seniors
What will you do to stop this, Sir?
This is so wrong and yet completely in line with this corrupted Republican administration. Congress do your frickin job! Afterall these are your constituents who gave you the job and they can take it away. I hope they do.
There MUST be a way to stop this!!!!
I don't have eX-twitter any more and refuse to have it on any of my devices for the same reason I don't have a copy of Mein Kampf.
My MIL worked as an archivist at the main public library in Memphis. She said Mein Kampf was frequently stolen from there. I hadn't known that libraries had copies of it.
That's crazy. I guess not so long ago, when people could still be shamed, people didn't want anyone to know they were reading it.
👍🏼
Evil and stupid all rolled into one ...
When and how will Trump and Musk be held accountable for their lawlessness and theft of Americans' money? Why has corruption and hate become the norm in American government? Stop the theft!
So, just to be clear, the richest man in the world who's tearing apart our government is still getting more taxpayers' money!! 🤬🤬 #FireElonMusk #BoycottTesla #DeportElonMusk #BoycottsWork
How is this legal?
WTF?? This has to be stopped!!
X has had a massive privacy breach and the service goes down! This is not a dependable site!
How about how much dOGE kids are getting paid!!! Please tell the us!!!!!
What are you and the rest of Senate going to start fighting some of the stuff?
This is scary. Another move to have total control. No choice for people is another freedom gone. Scared yet?
F that. Im still not going back there.
President Biden told us that Republicans want to take away Social Security. But people voted for Assolini anyway.
WTH?!? 🤬
No corruption here. Nope. No way.
the midterms are going to be a historic bloodbath
Welcome to Russia, American style
Buying books of stamps and sending them letters every day until it is changed. Government doesn’t know what to do with snail mail - let it pile up until they stop being idiots. Bombard them with paper…
The corruption is wiiiiiild. we rly here huh?
How is this even remotely legal. Fuck your Twitter bullshit.
This cannot be legal. DOGE isn’t even a recognized dept of our government! How are they allowed to TOUCH our money!!!!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!
You gotta be fucking kidding me? Seriously? Only on X? Like you can’t pay me enough to get an account on X. 🖕🏻🖕🏻🦋💙
Ditto and most seniors don't even know what X is!
Hey now. That's uncalled for. I know what X is. I just don't know how to use it.
That’s a blessing, karma will love you for that! ❤️🥰🦋💙
I do but I got banned so idk how that will work
I would not want to invite all that negativity into my life! 🦋💙
I do so. It's what marks the spot.
I know what it is, but refuse to be forced to get on that vile platform. Can you imagine how many non-savvy seniors could be taken advantage of by accidentally going to the wrong site? I'm sure X will be rife with look-alike sites, ready to steal even more private data?
Or X itself stealing data from its own subscribers!
it's a letter in the alphabet!
😆😆😆🦋💙
We left x
Isn't there a conflict of interest with this? Not to mention the fact NO ONE should need to access that cesspool to view any government announcements for information.
I don’t get why they can’t post to other locations. Send the email. It’s copy and paste. There are platforms that post to each location at the same time, different times whatever you want. This is just lazy for no other reason than to hurt others.
Its not lazy its about control. X is dying because Musk is evil. Just like Tesla. He used his shell company to buy it out, now he's using the govt to save X
Cory, we simply won't use x -- we couldn't agree with it's TOS and also don't want any association with Musk businesses.
What are Dems going to do to force the Republicans to repudiate this? Become ungovernable Senator. Gum up the system. Don't proceed. Don't acquiese. Stand tall.
You had your marathon day on the senate floor. You have earned a restful 2025. Just keep sending the American bombs to kill the Palestinians.
So fucking do something about it, you fuckmuppet.
Too bad the Dems don’t have a ton of Ivy educated Constitutional experts and lawyers who understand how the levers of the system work so they could fight back against the corrupt GQP traitors! Oh wait - we do? Right. How could I forget? They just chose to sit on their ass and watch the destruction.
And how much are WE THE PEOPLE paying Muskorruption for this latest travesty?
How can that be legal forcing people to use a private platform to get public information?!?! Despicable!
NOOO NOOO. STOP The Steal!!!!!
When you are that desperate for traffic to your social media platform. Who even has X anymore? I left as soon as he renamed it to that unimaginative name.
This is laughably evil (and stupid) who in their right mind would think a public social media platform is the place to post about a government agency? Oh wait, I answered my own question.
Illegal!
What action can we do to block this? Being forced onto a social media platform that is not a dedicated (and trusted) .gov website seems really sketch.
It’s a pattern. Elected leaders telling us things we already know or can read about but leaving out the part about what they’re going to actually DO.
Fix it.
There has to be a way to sue over this.
It’s an egregious abuse of power as well as a conflict of interest. Please enlighten us as to what you and your colleagues in Congress plan to do about it. I have great respect for you, please stop telling us what we already know and focus on what you are doing to put a stop to it.
If true, how can this possibly be legal?
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This is infuriating & I won’t go back to that site & not because of my age but because I’m not a nazi
No! SS info doesn’t belong on any social media site, much less that abomination. But not just “twitter”. Something HAS to be done about propaganda and mis-info spread. I support our 1st amendment. But when your “free speech” infringes on others rights to truth and security, you should forfeit yours.
Then shake your GOP colleagues by the lapels until they do the right thing and gut this administration of the useless fools running it. You only need 16 of them. Impeach and vote to convict. Enough talk. Take action.
Everyone must #boycottTwitter. You can use xcancel.com to view any Tweet on Twitter without creating an account. If everyone boycotts Twitter it will one day go away. Urge everyone you know to start using Bluesky and stop using Twitter.
Thank you for sharing this. Musputin’s grift of the moment: moving all public communications from the Social Security Administration to the Xitter platform. People are leaving his platform by the millions, but no problem—he can force seniors to use X by moving a government service there. Corruption!
Ok. *This* has to be illegal. The White House *backing* a corporation? Giving *this* business to someone working for the White House? Really? I'm 83. I got off Twitter(it will always be Twitter) on January 19th before the *death* of this nation was inaugurated. I will NOT support Musk! #Twitter
Should be illegal.
This is cruel!!!! These are people that EARNED it.
yeah it's wild and extremely corrupt. someone should do something about it
What!?!
This is obscene. What the hell happened to the republicans? Every one of them staying silent while a madman sets fire to our country is complicit. It feels like a long way off right now, but there will be a reckoning. And history will not look kindly on these cowardly men and women.
Liz Cheney and a few others did stand up and have been put aside by the party. Their love of power and of their positions is greater than their love of country.
Maybe stop electing convicted felons?
Nothing happened to them, they are who they've been for at least a decade.
BS this is not right. Totally wrong! Courts most stop this! Now!
We are receiving messages that this is not true about Trump and Musk and only having SOCIAL SECURITY information on X. Please confirm with us ASAP. We don’t know what to believe anymore and those of us who are seniors must have access to our Social Security.
I believe the SSA website is still up and running. I think they want you to go to X for any communications.
We need this addressed immediate I will not use X this is unacceptable! He does not get to put us on that crappy platform to make even more money! Tell us what we need to do to fix this!
1. Call your senators and rep. 2. Take to the streets— especially at a Tesla Takedown: theblop.org
Agreed! It is unsafe for this type of information is everyone’s first argument. Start writing your letter that personally states your points, including impacts to family & friends! We will send to your 2 Senators & rep! We will also send to the relevant committee members!
I spent 47 years contributing to Social Security TRUST Fund. Now this crook is trying to steal my money.
I don't have X. Why does fElon have the authority to post Social Security updates on X? That cannot be legal. Please sue fElon Musk for this. Get his hands out of the cookie jar. It is not his money.
It’s making EVERYONE forget about Signalgate though, isn’t it?
Public updates need to be available on all social media or none.
Thank you Cory ♥️
You should call your Senator and ask them to do something.
This is serious people they are destroying the Social Security within to make it fail, over 70 million seniors will suffer, won't get a check to pay rent, buy medicine,food, the economy will be hit the average check of $1500 not being spent will hurt 🇺🇸, Lutnicks mother inlaw won't suffer she is rich
As a retired person, I do want to add that X can suspend accounts at will. I had my account suspended so I can no longer access posts until I verify my account. Updates are inaccessible to me because I guess I hurt someone’s feelings
They want your address so they can track dissidents and political rivals. Elon is using his AI like ICE uses Palantir to track Americans. They have been using massive cell tower dumps to locate people for deportations. A judge ordered them to stop ✋...Yeah ok, I'm buying a few cheap burners..
@booker.senate.gov 2nd thought - X/Twitter has become rampant with ultra-conserv viewpoints and its algorithms are written, by default, to saturate a new user's feed from the onset. Now, the most vulnerable population will be forcibly exposed to mis/disinfo with hard political agendas to get SS $?
Sen. Booker, Musk cares little for his wealth losses YTD bc the data he has and is obtaining will make him far wealthier than he already is in the new age of AI. Data is the gold/oil of the 21st century & it is *completely corrupt* to require people to participate in a priv org for public info
WTF!! Trump is destroying the Social Security System! Why? NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS!! Is he trying to send us all over the edge so there is a nationwide uprising so he can declare an emergency and then start firing on Americans as he wanted to before during BLM protests? This is on you republicans!!
No way in hell will they make me use X 🤨
If SSA wants to communicate with me, they can use a 73 cent stamp.
You won’t get it .., price is about to be 78 cents
I'm sure they get a bulk discount somewhere in there.
Please stop this insanity!
Can’t this be prevented?
What?!?!?
Musk "deactivated" me on X awhile back. I'm 65 and disabled. Will I no longer be receiving my benefits?
Most of us don’t even use X Twitter, whatever the fuck he calls it now. They could at least pick a media platform that’s up-and-coming not one that’s burning out like this one.
This is the Ninja goon with his hands on people's social security!
This is BS, I have purposely deleted my Twitter account. I refuse to do anything to fund Musk and his corruption.
How can they just decide they're only going to communicate through a social media app less than half the country uses?
This is a crime. He is forcing people to visit his website and is going to show them ads and sell their data. This is a crime.
Need Social Security help ? Call your Congress person, I'm sure their staff will be happy to help. ( No public body or right-thinking person should use X )
Does anybody trust the information that appears on X? The government should communicate with citizens via reliable channels, not via a hotbed of misinformation like X.
What are we doing to stop them? No one is holding them accountable for anything even as they ignore SCOTUS
@booker.senate.gov what are you/Dems/courts going to do about this? It seems not only reckless, interest conflicted, and horribly prejudiced, but illegal. It is a public service and a private platform. Appreciate your criticism of it but, without planned action, that is just virtue signaling.
TERRIBLE IDEA
I don’t want to be on X to understand what’s happening with SS!
I'd imagine NYTimes etc will read the tweet and report it And local news? I would hope. Still. Sounds illeagal.
I would NOT want my Mother to see the toxic hate on a platform I left because of the toxic hate. I’m approaching senior years, and to this day , I have never used the f word around her. Twitter? Gezus It’s a great time to be Canadian.
Why is the trump administration doing this to our seniors? Seriously, are republicans in congress okay with this change in communication channels?
I will be writing an email or letter every day to social security telling them where I can be reached. I don't use any social media except BlueSky nor will I ever get an account with x.