Fmr. Social Security Commish Blasts ‘Co-Presidents’ Trump, Musk and ’19-Year-Old Nitwits’ At DOGE in Scorching CNN Interview

Former Social Security Administration commissioner Martin O’Malley blasted President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE Tuesday as a “threat” to the agency during an interview with CNN.

O’Malley, who ran the agency during the last year of the Biden administration, referred to Trump and Musk as “co-presidents” numerous times during a discussion about Musk’s staffers claiming to have found fraud at the agency.

Asked by CNN anchor Boris Sanchez about claims from Musk that dead people are being cut monthly checks, O’Malley disputed the claims.

“You’re laughing, but that is a concern that a lot of Americans have,” Sanchez said of Musk’s claims. “Is it a laughing matter?” O’Malley replied:

Yeah. He has no idea what he’s talking about there. There is not like a zombie apocalypse of people, you know, cadavers running around with Social Security checks coming out of their pockets. On the contrary. You know what’s more common that happens? Yes. I mean, it’s a big agency. So, yes, there are outliers. It’s 72.5 million people. Sometimes really desperate people will try to hide the fact that grandma died so they get a couple more checks.

But more often, because of the checks we have in place where we interrupt payments of people over a certain age, especially if they stop receiving Medicare benefits or more commonly And then in a more usual, is that we have to restore benefits when we erroneously cut them off when somebody moves out of country or something. But no, Don. Elon Musk, I mean, the co-presidents keep throwing stuff out on Twitter that they can never back up. I mean, ask you on Musk show me the 12 people that are 150 years old. He can’t show me the 200 million that are receiving checks. He can’t.

These 19-year-old nitwits from DOGE that are violating the law and plucking people’s, you know, personal identifying information, they don’t know what they’re looking at because, you know, the I.T. system that those dedicated employees have kept cranking out the checks – even during Covid, even during Covid – are very old. And they have an expertise. But now Donald Trump – you know what the biggest threat is to Social Security is that the co-presidents are going to drive out another 10,000 people from an agency that’s already buckling under a 50 year low in staffing, an all-time high in customers.

Sanchez replied, “Do you have any evidence that these folks working at Doge have plucked, as you say, Americans personal information, or are you speculating on that?”

O’Malley said he was not speculating and again criticized Trump, Musk, and DOGE’s staffers:

It is a firable offense if an employee goes through and browses to see, you know, what their brother-in-law might have made in the course of his life or those things. It’s a firable offense and oftentimes it’s something that is referable to the inspector general for criminal prosecution. But now we can’t do that because the co-presidents whacked all of the inspector generals whose job it is to police against waste, fraud, and abuse. So there is abuse going on and it’s all being committed by the 19-year-old nitwits at those who are empowered by the co-presidents, Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

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