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Elon Musk's latest venture: breaking Social Security to own it [1]

['Jason Weisberger']

Date: 2025-03-25

Current and former Social Security officials fear Elon Musk is focused on breaking Social Security so he can take it over and "fix it" like Twitter.

"They're creating a fire to require them to come and put it out," said one former high-ranking SSA official who took an early retirement offer earlier this year.

The Post also documents how the changes demanded by Musk have severely degraded the SSA's service quality.

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Sen. Angus King (I-ME) echoed SSA insiders' charges that Musk and his minions have been running a campaign of deliberate sabotage against a cornerstone social insurance safety net.

"What's going on is the destruction of the agency from the inside out, and it's accelerating," he said. "What they're doing now is unconscionable."

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