President Donald Trump’s promises to safeguard Social Security and Medicare are being complicated by his close adviser Elon Musk’s far-reaching cost-cutting efforts at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The popular entitlements, which are considered politically untouchable by many in Congress, came with a warning label from Republican senators for DOGE not to slash benefits as Democrats look to make the administration’s handling of the programs a wedge matter.
“We all want to cut the Executive Branch of government, but we want to do it more like a surgical approach, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told the Washington Examiner. “I think that they’re finding that out right now.”
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