Commentary: After Maine’s governor publicly challenged him, Trump threw the state’s Social Security into chaos

**To be clear this was reversed** but it looks like the admin was flexing their muscle showing how willing they will be to take revenge on citizens if their representatives don’t bend the knee.

>Here’s what happened after that. Out of the blue, the Trump administration canceled a contract that allowed parents in the state to apply for Social Security numbers for their newborns by simply checking a box on a form at the hospital—the way parents in all 50 states have done for decades, as the Social Security Administration has said.

>The change meant that new parents would have to bring their infants to one of only eight Social Security field offices in Maine, sometimes by traveling for hours, exposing the newborns to infectious diseases in public.

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>As has happened so often with the Trump White House’s thoughtless policy decisions, this one was reversed a day later.

>Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of Social Security, issued a press release Friday, stating that the contract allowing parents to apply for their newborns’ Social Security numbers through Maine’s healthcare agency, along with another through which Maine authorities reported deaths of Maine residents to the Social Security Administration, had been reinstated.