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Trump started cutting your Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid. HE IS LYING TO YOU!: Egberto Willies (Politics Done Right) 37.8K subscribers 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. Become A Member https://bit.ly/3nnJ8TZ . 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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 much we spend a lot of time deconstructing the news trying to trying to parse it into a form that everybody can understand we try to find those little nitpicks where uh it goes it flies above The Fray Etc if you really like these videos that we do I want to ask a big favor please go ahead number one subscribe to our Channel and number two please join if you can thank you so kindly for watching keep watching please remember to share we must populate the entire internet with our Progressive message a message that we know is what most Americans say that they want so help us please join

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