Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week: 'Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger'

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(Photo: ​U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Feb. 10, 2025, Wash., D.C.). 📣
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Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger: Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week, Common Dreams, Feb. 24, Ed.
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"Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk's email and report on what he did last week? To help, I've gone ahead and done it for him," Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote on X.

Amidst a push from Elon Musk to get federal workers to outline work they "accomplished" last week in an email or—according to a social media post from Musk—lose their jobs, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Mass. riffed on the directive when she took to social media on Sunday to highlight some of the actions recently taken by President Trump.

On Friday, Trump dismissed Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown, and also fired 5 other Pentagon officials, including the first woman to lead the Navy, in a radical shake-up of U.S. military leadership. Warren said that the move puts "our national security at risk." While speaking on the "Shawn Ryan Show" in Nov., Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that if confirmed he would fire Brown, who is Black, arguing that Brown had pushed a "woke" agenda, according to NBC News. Hegseth also said on that show that "any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI, woke s--t has got to go," per NBC News.

- Sen. Warren speaks at packed Framingham, MA town hall on Trump administration actions. NBC 10 Boston, Feb. 22, 2025.
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Warren also highlighted that Trump "promised to protect Medicaid only to backtrack [less than] 24 hrs later by endorsing the House GOP plan to cut healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-rich." Last week, Trump said on Fox News that Medicaid would not be "touched," but the next day endorsed a House GOP budget proposal, which if enacted could see cuts to Medicaid and other social programs in order to help pay for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. Warren then denounced Trump for his administration's firing of "the experts working to end bird flu (as egg prices go WAY up)"—referring to an announcement from the U.S.D.A., which early last week said that it had accidentally fired "several" employees working on the govt's bird flu response, and that it was working to "rectify" the situation and rescind termination letters sent to those people.

She also slammed the admin. for stopping "the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from helping people who get scammed by Wall Street and giant corporations." Warren helped set up the federal agency that protects consumers from unfair financial practices after the 2008 financial crisis. The CFPB has been targeted by Musk & its enforcement activity has been ground to a halt by the Trump admin., though the moves made against the CFPB stretch back further than last week to early Feb.

And last, Warren highlighted that Trump has "put your grandma's Social Security check in danger by forcing out the acting Social Security Commissioner."... - More,

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elizabeth-warren-what-trump-did-last-week