Trump started cutting your Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid. HE IS LYING TO YOU!:
Egberto Willies (Politics Done Right)
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Mar 5, 2025 Politics Done Right Interviews
Social Security Works Exec. Dir. Alex Lawson sounds the alarm on the Trump/Musk administration actively going after Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Here is what we must do.
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Transcript
- 0:01
- welcome to another edition of politics
- and writer MTO willly your host today
- we're honored once again to have Alex
- Lawson Alex Lawson is the executive
- director of Social Security works the
- convenient member of the strengthened
- Social Security Coalition and Coalition
- made up of over 340 National and state
- organizations representing over 50
- million Americans the reason I wanted to
- get in touch with Alex as soon as
- possible is because of what we're seeing
- occurring in real time to Social
- Security via Doge and all the other
- imaginations being done by uh the
- current Republican Congress uh Alex it's
- a pleasure to have you on politics and
- right today how are you doing today
- great thanks for having me uh love your
- program can't wait to dig into it well
- look first of all uh latest script for
- me what exact first of all we when we
- spoke at netroots Nation we were hoping
- that we would have had a different
- outcome but uh we were not so lucky and
- for all those who thought that maybe
- Social Security was safe maybe Medicaid
- 1:00
- was safe because these are programs that
- affect so many pro uh people we've seen
- a wrecking ball take place that are
- using all kinds of imaginations to get
- around it so lay latest lay the case for
- me right now yeah it's a multi-prong
- assault uh on all of us uh but it's also
- really simple it's literally the richest
- man in the world Elon Musk and his
- billionaire buddies reaching their hands
- into our pockets and stealing our money
- our health care uh on Social Security
- you know Elon musk's Doge
- effort they've already uh put in place
- devastating Cuts cuts that the former
- Commissioner of social security so it's
- not me it's the former Senate confirmed
- Commissioner of Social Security said
- that will lead to system collapse in 30
- to 90 days that's what they've already
- done and they've said they're not done
- yet um so these cuts are devastating and
- that's not what they might do in the
- 2:01
- future that's what they're doing right
- now your benefits are at risk uh if you
- need to get in touch with the agency
- you're not going to be able to they want
- to make it just like uh you know
- Facebook or one of these Silicon Valley
- companies where uh when you try to call
- them you don't get a human being you get
- no help at all uh that's what they're
- doing to Social Security it's a wrecking
- ball that has already crashed through
- the middle of uh the agency now that's
- not the end though that's not the end uh
- what you saw last night is the president
- president Trump you know this guy took
- the most Brazen lies that Elon Musk has
- been selling the ones that are most easy
- to disprove and that's important it's a
- trick of the tyrants they want to push
- the biggest lie possible there's no
- nobody who's 200 years old getting
- 3:03
- benefits from Social Security that's
- absolute garbage it's totally and
- utterly false but what he's doing is
- he's just trying to put out there this
- misinformation this fraud idea uh so
- just a quick fact at 115 benefits are
- automatically stopped when a person hits
- the age
- of5 there's not many people who reach
- that age but there are some and they
- actually have to go and prove uh to the
- agency that they're still alive to get
- their benefits turned back on um most of
- everything that Donald Trump said uh is
- actually just based on Elon Musk and his
- little stooges not being smart enough to
- talk to people who understand the system
- uh that social security has in place
- there is a vanishingly small amount of
- improp improper payments uh in Social
- Security it's it is a rounding error uh
- 4:02
- and yet the inspector generals have put
- out report after report detailing this
- is actually how you fix these improper
- payments most of it has to do with
- having enough people working in the
- system that they can update the file but
- there's not millions of people uh
- getting fraudulent payments that's just
- not what's happening you have a tiny
- amount of people uh who are receiving
- improper payments sometimes it's too
- much uh sometimes it's too little uh but
- the idea that this system is Rife with
- fraud the private sector is Absolut they
- would they would kill they would kill to
- have the rates that Social Security does
- it's an incredibly uh well-run agency
- that has incredibly low amounts of fraud
- but I have to actually say it did and it
- was because now now I don't know they
- 5:01
- fired everyone in charge of ensuring
- that payments are proper that the data
- is upgraded they got rid of all of them
- and now the president is out there
- saying there's all this fraud he's
- coming for your benefits people he's
- closing your office next they've already
- closed 45 offices yours is next they
- told the GSA that which is basically the
- federal government's landlord to cancel
- all of the government releases that's
- 1,500 Social Security offices your local
- office you're not going to be able to
- call the 800 number right now you should
- try and see how long the wait time is
- now uh because they fired everybody and
- now they're going to close your office
- so you can't go to the office what's
- next what's next is they're going to
- reach their hand directly into your
- pocket and take your benefits your check
- will not reach your bank account because
- it's going into Elon musk's bank account
- instead you know people people thought
- 6:01
- that this was just hyperbole but now we
- actually have examples of this happening
- in fact I saw one uh one agent said if
- you know what's good for you right now
- if you don't have that piece of paper
- that they send you every year telling
- you how much you've uh worked go ahead
- to the Social Security website and
- download your information so that you
- have evidence of what is occurring but I
- I know your main concentration is on
- Social Security but I think what the
- Administration is trying to do also is
- OB obfuscate Social Security Medicaid
- and Medicare together so that it looks
- like one huge entitlement gone right why
- don't you tell us a little bit of what
- they're trying to do there yeah so we we
- focus on all of them because as a system
- you need all the pieces of it Medicaid
- is the largest provider of long-term
- care in this country Medicaid serves
- seniors children people with
- disabilities um over half of every
- 7:00
- person in a nursing home uh is there
- through Medicaid you get rid of Medicaid
- which is what the Republicans are
- proposing they're proposing they they
- are like oh yeah we're not doing it we
- promise uh they it's written down 800
- billion dollar $880
- billion uh in uh the committee that
- overseas Medicaid they instructed them
- find
- $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid that's
- in the reconciliation process which is
- um the the longer term threat uh and in
- that case that destroys Medicaid so
- you're exactly right what they're trying
- to do is just paint this picture uh of
- these systems that they are you know
- Rife with fraud uh there's all this
- waste and abuse there is uh waste Fraud
- and Abuse in every system that's true
- and if you want to root it out uh you
- have inspector generals who look at that
- 8:01
- specifically uh to minimize it the first
- thing the administration did is fired
- all the inspector generals that's not
- what you do if you want to root out
- waste Fraud and Abuse that's what you do
- if you want to do fraud um that's what
- they're doing and so what we have here
- is an attack on all of us so that Elon
- Musk and his billionaire buddies can get
- an enormous tax hand out they're just
- robbing Peter to pay Elon uh to quote a
- great leader of today and and that it's
- as simple as that so they're coming
- after your Social Security your office
- is closing next I want you to know that
- right it's not happening to someone else
- it's happening to you and if you don't
- wake up and fight back now uh it is
- going to get worse uh so we have to
- raise our voices right now uh and I do
- think that they've fully uh they fully
- 9:03
- misunderstand how important Social
- 9:05
- Security Medicare and Medicaid are to
- the American people and the ferocity
- with which the American people will
- fight back because it's ours we pay for
- it we earn it and if we let some
- politician in DC reach their hand in our
- pocket and steal it for Elon Musk I
- don't think so you know uh one of the
- reasons I I think we're having a few
- problems and issues communicating with
- people is that while you are a truth
- teller and you are pointing out evidence
- as to what exactly is happening too many
- people will just hear the president at
- face value say I am going to save Social
- Security or here Johnson the Speaker of
- the House say I am going to save these
- programs for you while at the other hand
- trying to create under reconcil first of
- all I I better explain one thing real
- quickly there are two ways to uh to to
- 10:00
- take care of this through reconciliation
- or through the normal budgetary process
- reconciliation means they can do it with
- all Republicans which means if
- Republicans decide that they are all
- going to team up together there's
- nothing Democrats can do to stop it
- however as Alex pointed out definitively
- you still have power because every
- single one of those Republican
- Representatives they want to be
- reelected they want to be back in office
- so the reality is you've got month or
- two
- to let these guys know that you won't
- take it you Alex what can they do what
- can these people that are going to be
- aect to do we just got a we got a show
- up uh so if you go to Social Security
- works.org you can get involved you can
- uh join with us so that you're up to
- date but we got to move it beyond the
- computer screen we got to show up at
- your Social Security office um we'll
- help you organize the events we've got
- dozens of these going on around the
- country um we need people to stand up
- 11:00
- right now we need them to call their
- members of Congress yes but we need them
- to do more but specifically on members
- of Congress there's 17 Frontline House
- Republicans uh who have won their
- districts by fewer votes than the people
- who will lose health care if budget
- reconciliation goes through right 17
- Frontline members take uh Iowa's first
- District representative Miller Meeks she
- won by 700 votes 700 votes uh and if she
- gets her way tens of thousands of her uh
- constituents will lose their health care
- and we have a a a spreadsheet online um
- you can find us on social media Social
- Security works so you have all the data
- plus their phone numbers call them you
- know right now they're more scared of
- billionaire unelected King unelected
- bureaucrat Elon Musk than they are of
- their own constituents we have to flip
- 12:00
- that they have to be scared of their
- constituents A very wise man once told
- me that at the end of the day
- politicians really only care about one
- election their own uh and that's what we
- have to remind them of that you know
- when they're under the the uh
- spellbinding uh you know Elon Musk uh
- created safety blanket uh it might seem
- like they're going to get away with it
- they're not going to get away with it
- they're going to lose their jobs uh and
- the thing is and you pointed this out
- the margins in the house are so narrow
- they can only lose one right now and by
- the time reconciliation is going they
- can lose three there's 17 of them uh who
- are going to lose their job 100% And
- They Know It uh that's why when they're
- selling this stuff they lie right they
- go on TV and they're like no I'm not
- there's no Medicaid Cuts in there and
- the problem is the corporate media is
- like oh okay you okay and you're like
- 13:03
- what do you mean did you not get the
- document it's right there you can read
- it
- $880 billion do um so we can't trust
- there's a couple things the corporate
- media is you know all Speed Ahead to
- make this happen um we can't trust
- politicians uh either politicians aren't
- going to save us there's no Cavalry
- coming but we have to push the
- politicians
- uh because we are the Cavalry The
- Bravery comes from us it comes from
- everyday people standing up and saying
- no to this authoritarian takeover by an
- unelected billionaire bureaucrat um once
- we show The Bravery then the politicians
- are going to join us um that's the order
- of operation so first we get organized
- we get in the streets we raise our
- voices uh and we say no
- no you're not going to steal our social
- 14:01
- security no you're not going to close my
- social security office no you're not
- going to take away my or my family's
- Medicaid uh and throw my loved one out
- of the nursing home that they need uh
- that's what P that's where power comes
- from millions of people standing up
- together and saying no you're not going
- to get away with this um a message to
- Mya brothers and sisters uh in the
- aggreg
- more of you are dependent on Social
- Security Medicaid and Medicare than the
- population at large numbers are out
- there and it's also important for us to
- understand that the billionaires the
- only reason they have power is that
- money buys your vote you have to decide
- if your vote can be paid for with
- dollars and lies it is up to us as Alex
- said Alex give me a
- closer so uh just I know it's dark times
- uh and it feels like this is an unsto
- stable force that we're up against it's
- 15:01
- eminently stoppable uh these are not uh
- like superum they've got all their stuff
- together they are tripping over their
- own feet every day every day they're
- tripping over their own feet you should
- read how impossible the pretzel is
- between the Senate and the house to get
- anything done they don't agree with each
- other at all in fact in the house alone
- they don't have a unified caucus they
- hate themselves most of all what we have
- to do is Stand United and remember that
- there's tens of millions of us and that
- we have the power uh these bumbling
- billionaire funded politicians and these
- billionaire unelected billionaire
- bureaucrats who are trying to steal our
- money they're just trying to overwhelm
- us so let's not get overwhelmed let's be
- methodical don't ever let them steal
- 16:00
- your joy either um we have to stay in
- this fight uh it's not a Sprint nor is
- it a marathon it's actually a relay race
- uh so you do your part when you can you
- take your rests when you need it and you
- never ever think that you're alone in
- this fight get organized stand together
- with your neighbors shoulder toosh
- shoulder with our voices raised we
- cannot be defeated Social Security Works
- has some help tell us about how how we
- can get to your organization to help
- ourselves yeah if you go to
- socialsecurityworks.org that's our
- website on all social media you know I
- prefer blue sky it's just Social
- Security works you can find us there um
- we've got seniors councils and 40 of the
- of the states these are our super
- activists who meet uh in person and by
- Zoom uh so there's just a whole uh
- there's a whole way a whole series of
- ways that you can get involved with us
- uh but it just starts by either going to
- 17:00
- our website signing a petition now
- you're going to get emails from us you
- don't have to read them all uh but if
- you do you're going to be up to the date
- uh uh informed as to what's going on
- it's also when we put out facts when we
- put out information spread that
- information around print it out you know
- print out the office closings print out
- uh the $880 billion hand it to somebody
- maybe somebody who voted for Donald
- Trump but they voted because they
- thought he was going to bring down the
- price of eggs uh when in fact the price
- of eggs is skyrocketing right and the
- tariffs are going to just make it worse
- but nobody voted nobody voted to destroy
- Social Security nobody voted to destroy
- Medicare nobody voted to destroy
- Medicaid uh so we just have to get the
- information out there uh and you can do
- that starting by going to
- socialsecurityworks.org
- Alex Lawson executive director of Social
- Security works thank you so kindly for
- 18:01
- having been on politics done right
- thanks so
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