However, the one thing I noticed was quite a few signs stating that Trump and DOGE would be cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits. That is partially true, but not the way I think these protesters are implying.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits will be cut...for those who aren’t eligible for them, receiving them fraudulently. That includes those who are well over 120 years of age, illegal immigrants who aren’t eligible , and ‘ghost’ recipients who are collecting benefits for multiple people who are deceased, i.e. their deaths were never reported to federal government. The fraudulent payments are projected to total in the billions of dollars which means those who are receiving the benefits due to them are being ripped off.
Either those making these claims about cut in benefits to legitimate recipients are believing this erroneous information or are lying themselves.
I am not focusing on the tariff issue as I have already made my opinion about them known. But I am going to add this one last thing about DOGE that I saw elsewhere:
It’s wild to see people who have been robbing us blind trying to justify being upset at us catching them.Is DOGE the only way we can get our federal spending under control? I hate having to say this, but it may be our last hope. Congress certainly isn’t going to do it as they have no real incentive to do so. Too many in Congress are compromised, not because they are evil but more that they ‘owe’ others ‘favors’ in exchange for helping them get elected. Some are evil, seeing the budget as a means of filling their pockets and those of their friends and families. I wish it weren’t so, but there are far too many members of Congress that have become quite wealthy, taking in far more money than their salaries and speaking fees can account for.
Call me cynical...because I am.