Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

So much back and forth about the SSA it's nice to have someone tracking it
https://popular.info/p/how-the-social-s ... medium=web

Been a big back and forth between Fed'l judge and the acting admin of SSA last couple of days. The administrator misread the judge's order and said he'd have to shut down the whole admin and that payments would be late... Judge today took him to task and explained in no uncertain terms that there was no need to shut down the whole SSA.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/market ... ourt-order

Pitchforks.

We All Know this is going to end badly.

Washington Post:
"Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data.
<<Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history and would immediately begin halting benefit payments for millions of Americans.
One plaintiff in the lawsuit at the heart of the ruling said Friday that the judge’s intention was clear — and accused Dudek of acting “like a child who didn’t get his way.”
“For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck — but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink,” Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in a statement. “Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has proven again that he is in way over his head, compromising the privacy of millions of Americans, shutting down services that senior citizens rely on and planning debilitating layoffs, all in service to Elon Musk’s lies.”