Headline in today’s Washington Post:
Trump plan would limit Social Security disability benefits for older Americans
Lowlights from the story:
The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans.
It is unclear exactly how many Americans could lose access to disability benefits under the proposed rule changes. Jack Smalligan, senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute and a former Office of Management and Budget official through five administrations, wrote in a recent paper that if the proposed rule reduced eligibility for the disability program by 10 percent, 750,000 fewer people would receive benefits for all or part of the next decade. In addition, 80,000 fewer widows and children would receive benefits due to the loss in eligibility of a spouse or parent.
People familiar with the proposed changes said they are a priority of People familiar with the proposed changes said they are a priority of RUSSELL VOUGHT, author of Project 2025, now director of the Office of Management and Budget, who sought during Trump’s first term to update the disability rolls through executive action. At the start of Trump’s second term, the White House budget office urged former acting commissioner Leland Dudek to pursue rule changes shortly after he took office.
Senate Finance Committee ranking Democrat Ron Wyden (Oregon) argued that the rule change is just the first step in broader Republican plans to cut Social Security.
“This is Phase One of the Republican campaign to force Americans to work into old age to access their earned Social Security benefits, and represents the largest cut to disability insurance in American history,” Wyden said in a statement to The Post. “Americans with disabilities have worked and paid into Social Security just like everybody else, and they do not deserve the indignity of more bureaucratic water torture to get what they paid for.”
Louisiana Voice 
We need in this country today, the kinds of massive protests we had during the Vietnam era. These large, sustained demonstrations received national attention and gained broad public support. Silent acquiescence, like we have today, only allows the MAGA regime to achieve its diabolical aims far too quickly. We are at a turning point. Can they be stopped, or is it too late?
Well said! It’s going to take the American people’s voice to be heard loud and clear to get things turned around.
If I may paraphrase this quote: The only thing necessary for evil to succeed, is for good men to do nothing.
There will be No Kings Day protests all over on Oct. 18. You can sign up at https://mobilize.us/s/ITqpCp
Of the estimated 750,000 people who would lose eligibility how many do you think are MAGA voters? But they’ll do it anyway believing the entire time crackheads and illegals get government freebies from woke leftists while hard working Americans like themselves just get screwed again and again. They won’t ever figure it out.
MAGAS will believe anything that this administration feeds them though it’s all lies.
Trump could care less about the poor, elderly or sick in America, all he is concerned about his facist takeover of America using ICE and the military to do his bidding.