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‘Coup by chaos’: union leaders decry Trump’s overhaul of Social Security

NYC rally on Social Security’s 90th calls for restored staffing

BY HARPER FREEMAN
Posted 8/22/25

On the 90th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing of the Social Security Act, lawmakers and union leaders are uniting to protect and defend the benefits, as well as the employees who run the Social Security Administration’s programs amid the Trump administration’s cuts. 

Trump has chided the SSA for being bloated, wasteful and slow and early in his term sent Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and the Department of Government Efficiency to trim the program. 

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