Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security, Axios has learned.
The White House is planning service cuts to Social Security that current and former officials warn would break an already strained system.
The war room will serve as a central hub for Senate Democrats to plan messaging, create content, provide oversight, make field visits and host town halls to pummel the GOP on the issue.
The Trump administration is planning to cut some identity verification phone services at the Social Security Administration next month, after postponing the move last week.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) organized the war room, we are told.
The war room will mean a more intensive Democratic offensive on the issue, including holding more town halls in GOP congressional districts and visiting Social Security offices around the country.
The Democrats will announce the war room after the Senate Finance Committee will likely advance the nomination of President Trump's pick to be Social Security commissioner on Tuesday.
Schumer will join the lawmakers who organized the war room at the event announcing the initiative.
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Yeah, I’d rather do the “Total Consolidation of Federal Authority into the Executive Branch and Erosion of Rule of Law and Constitutional Restraints” war room first, but it’s something.
War on Social Security 🙏🙏🙏
I’m on a Committee
(Phong Ngo)
Oh, give me a pity, I’m on a committee
Which means that from morning to night
We attend and amend and contend and defend
Without a conclusion in sight.
We confer and concur, we defer and demur
And re-iterate all of our thought
We revise the agenda with frequent addenda
And consider a load of reports.
We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose
And the points of procedure are fun!
But though various notions are brought up as motion
There’s terribly little gets done.
We resolve and absolve, but never dissolve
Since it’s out of the question for us.
What a shattering pity to end our committee
Where else could we make such a fuss?
Copyright Phong Ngo
RG
APR99
Edit: I can’t get the formatting right on mobile. C’est la vie.
In the time that it has taken for the Democrats to even imagine the idea of developing a counter-offensive, Trump has been systematically dismantling every governmental apparatus he can think of. By the time they come up with a way to prevent Social Security from being dismantled, we will be next in line for the firing squad.
Wow, this’ll show ‘em!!!