Todd Frankel
Appearances
Apple News Today
How Social Security is changing
At Social Security Administration and pretty much every other federal agency, they have their own inspector generals who are these teams who are supposed to hunt down the exact same thing, waste, fraud, and abuse. And when Trump came into office, there were 17 different inspector generals across the federal government. He fired them all.
Apple News Today
How Social Security is changing
The federal government actually has a fairly robust system of checks and balances to keep an eye on where that money is flowing.
Apple News Today
How Social Security is changing
It's known as the third rail in politics because the third rail is electrified in some ways, and politicians are fearful to touch it, to mess with it. And President Trump has said that he's not going to cut Medicare or Social Security. It's an incredibly popular benefit. It was established to sort of curb this epidemic of poverty among senior citizens in the U.S.
Apple News Today
How Social Security is changing
And so I think what's really caught folks off ideas and their minds. Today, as Doge says, they're going after waste, fraud and abuse. But if there isn't too much waste, fraud and abuse within Social Security, well, where are you going to get those savings from? So folks are worried that they're going to go after the actual benefits themselves.