AFSCME's Saunders: Forcing Social Security beneficiaries to use X is Elon Musk's latest money-making scheme

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/afscmes-saunders-forcing-social-security-beneficiaries-to-use-x-is-elon-musks-latest-money-making-scheme


For Immediate Release
Friday, April 11, 2025
Contact: Nick Voutsinos
Email: [e-mail]


WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after it was reported that the Social Security Administration is moving all public communications to Elon Musk’s X:

“Retirees, disabled individuals and the millions of beneficiaries who rely on Social Security should not need an X account to receive updates on the program. Moving all Social Security communications to Elon Musk’s personal social media platform is a blatant effort to gain more users and pad X’s profits. This move should ring alarm bells everywhere. Social Security belongs to the hardworking taxpayers who have paid into the program, not an unelected billionaire like Musk.

“This administration has made their desire to gut and then privatize Social Security clear. Shuttering the program’s regional offices and moving all communications to a single, unaccountable, insecure, for-profit social media company is just the next step in their scheme to enrich billionaires with our tax dollars.

“This is exactly why we need to keep Musk and his DOGE cronies out of the Social Security Administration, and we’re not going to give up this fight.”


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AFSCME's 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in communities across the nation, serving in hundreds of different occupations — from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers — AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and freedom and opportunity for all working families.

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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
1625 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036-5687
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[Baitball Blogger]

1. Will another lawsuit remedy this nuttery?