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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Apr 14, 2025
The social security website, SSA.gov, crashed. This happened not long after the Trump administration announced a procedure change that would have forced more customers to go to the website. Agency business ground to a halt. The downed website prevented in-person visits and telephone inquiries, too.
According to an internal memo leaked to the Washington Post, plans by Elon Musk and the DOGE team to force disabled customers to go in person to offices and no longer get help over the phone have been dropped—for now. Currently, 40% of all business with the agency is handled by phone.
A current information technology worker at Social Security said anonymously to the Washington Post that many of the most experienced computer programmers at the agency are retiring or getting other jobs, out of frustration over the turmoil. “There is nowhere near enough IT staff to actually implement changes,” the employee said.
A Social Security official confirmed on April 9 that everything previously done over the phone will continue to be able to be done over the phone.
In summary, so many people in the U.S. were worried about what DOGE was doing to Social Security that people flocked to the website, social security offices, or started calling. This tsunami of worried people caused the computer system to crash. And it crashed not just once, but almost daily.
The recent panic does NOT sound like the actions of a population that trusts DOGE to “protect” Social Security!
The population is damn right to distrust DOGE and to be on high alert for attacks on Social Security that are surely coming.