[scarface_74]

There is no way that conservatives are going to let DOGE touch Medicare that and social security are the third rail and he can’t cut either one without Congress. What is he going to do? Not send checks to senior citizens?

The minute you cut military spending - again you can’t do it without Congress - Republicans are going to grow a spine.

Do you remember the FoxConn investment that never happened?

https://www.reuters.com/business/foxconn-sharply-scales-back...

[chrsig]

> he can’t cut either one without Congress. What is he going to do? Not send checks to senior citizens?

cut it anyway then deal with the 'consequences' in court. obviously.

[scarface_74]

The minute that Republicans allow one penny of cuts to social security, senior citizens - the most active voters - are going to abandon the Republican Party in droves. It might even turn Florida Blue again.

If they cut Medicare reimbursements or force senior citizens to pay more, it will have the same affect.

Modifying health care benefits that people already have has hurt Democrats in 2010 with the ACA and Republicans in 2018 trying to repeal it.

[chrsig]

no...they'll just let the seniors die.

[SpicyLemonZest]

> What is he going to do? Not send checks to senior citizens?

Yes, he's going to do precisely that. Musk will identify that some segment of the recipients is "fraud", or identify some employees who play a critical role in the processing pipeline as "waste". Then when the first senior citizens stop getting their checks, he'll call the reporters who talk about it liars or blame the Social Security Administration for "malicious compliance".

I don't necessarily expect you to believe me, even though he's already run this playbook in multiple other agencies. I'm just some guy on the Internet. But when you read the headlines in a couple months about missed Social Security payments, I hope you'll remember this comment, and adjust accordingly for your future predictions about what the administration wouldn't dare touch.

[johnnyanmac]

>There is no way that conservatives are going to let DOGE touch Medicare that and social security are the third rail and he can’t cut either one without Congress. What is he going to do?

I've been highly disappointed everytime I said this year "there's no was X". I heard Medicaid was the same but look what's happening as we speak.

He'll break something, bad. Maybe then people will wake up. He's already starting the astroturfing over "dead people collecting social security" because the programmers don't understand the code they are reading. That's how it starts, eroding trust in the system.