The sneak attack on Social Security creates new vulnerability for Elon Musk and for the entire Trump project of destroying government.
Health and Social Policy
Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
How Social Security Administration Cuts Affect You
A timely research paper looking at SSA staff cuts in the 1980s found that it led to tens of thousands of Americans not getting their earned benefits.
‘Significant Workforce Reductions’ Under Way at Social Security Administration
An agency-wide email announces the organizational restructuring and encourages employees to retire or resign.
Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce
Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk Own the Bird Flu Epidemic
Bird flu is rampaging among chickens and cattle, while Trump and Musk gut the agencies responsible for stopping it.
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets
Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.
The DOGE Czar’s Plan to Loot Medicare
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
The Exemplary Radical Skeptic
Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.

