CLAIM: Sen. Chuck Schumer and Bloomberg News claimed that Elon Musk called for eliminating or cutting Social Security and Medicare.
VERDICT: FALSE.
Musk did not call for eliminating Social Security or Medicare. He also did not call for benefit cuts.
Musk’s comments referenced waste and fraud in entitlement spending, not the abolition of these programs or the reduction of the benefits they provide. Schumer and Bloomberg deliberately misrepresented his remarks for political purposes.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seized on a recent comment from Elon Musk, made during an interview with Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow, to push the familiar Democratic attack line that falsely accuses Republicans of wanting to eliminate Social Security and Medicare. Schumer falsely claimed that Musk had said “the
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