Elizabeth Warren Slams Trump Admin Over Social Security Communicating Only On X: 'Right, Because Grandma Is On X'

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed the Trump administration on Friday over a report that the Social Security Administration (SSA) will exclusively communicate through X, the social media platformed owned by DOGE head Elon Musk.

"Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple," said Warren. The report, published by Wired, details that the agency will stop communicating with the media and the public through press releases and "dear colleague" letters amid major staffing cuts.

SSA regional commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis told managers earlier this week that, instead, "the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public ... so this will become our communication mechanism."

Trump officials rejected that the change will impact beneficiaries, with White House spokesperson Liz Huston saying the SSA is "actively communicating with beneficiaries and stakeholders."

"There has not been a reduction in workforce. Rather, to improve the delivery of services, staff are being reassigned from regional offices to front-line help – allocating finite resources where they are most needed. President Trump will continue to always protect Social Security," she added.

The outlet also detailed that the SSA's regional office workforce is set to be cut by almost 90% and that since February the agency has cut 7,000 jobs. The agency currently has 547 employees in almost a dozen regional offices, with the figure expected to drop to about 70 after the cuts.

Kerr-Davis acknowledged to a SSA employee that the restructuring can limit SSA's ability to combat fraud. "Won't losing subject matter experts lead directly to fraud, waste, and abuse?" the staffer asked. "Yes, I mean, we do rely on [their] help ... Things are going to break, and they're going to break fast," she replied.