Arthur Delaney right here. I’m a senior politics reporter at HuffPost. I’ve been masking politics, the economic system and Congress right here for 16 years.
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When we now have a significant story, we get a giant response, and I’ve typically requested readers to ship ideas or share their very own tales, which has allowed me to incorporate common folks’s voices in stories about government policy changes.
Proper now we’re seeing some intense reader curiosity in Social Safety, which is below menace from President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser, Elon Musk (talking of bizarre wealthy guys). Trump has promised he would by no means contact Social Safety, and but he and Musk have been repeatedly claiming, falsely, that this system is filled with fraud.
I coated the primary Trump administration’s efforts to cut Social Security disability benefits; now Trump and Musk try to dismantle the Social Safety Administration alongside different federal businesses. And we’re seeing one thing else: the weaponization of probably the most well-liked applications within the U.S.
After Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, stood as much as Trump on the White Home, the Social Safety Administration canceled vital records contracts with the state, prompting its division of well being to inform dad and mom of newborns they might now not be capable of verify a field on the hospital to request Social Safety numbers for his or her infants.
The contracts had been shortly reinstated amid an uproar, however we didn’t let it go. Throughout a press name about plans to chop telephone service, I requested Social Safety’s performing director if he had some type of beef with Mills for disrespecting Trump — and he admitted that he did. One Democratic congresswoman instantly called on him to resign. Solely HuffPost had the story.
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