Yonkers protest slams U.S. plan to slash Social Security workforce

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Angela Davis-Farrish, a Baptist minister and president of the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, wasn't buying the administration's insistence it won't touch Social Security benefits or the safety net.
51% : "These steps prioritize customer service by streamlining redundant layers of management, reducing non-mission critical work, and potential reassignment of employees to customer service positions," the agency said in its Feb. 28 announcement of job cuts.
51% : Another Social Security office in Poughkeepsie, now closed for renovations, was originally listed for permanent closure on the website of the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting team that Musk leads.
51% : But officials have since announced that the office will reopen after the work is done. Trying to restore lost benefits for a 90-year-old mom Rally speakers on Thursday included a Yonkers resident who has been struggling to recover Social Security benefits for her 90-year-old mother, whose payments abruptly stopped in February without notice or explanation.
49% : "What is even more crazy is that we have billionaires making decisions on the vital resources for our community, that will never, ever need Social Security.
49% : " Why are these changes happening at Social Security offices?
46% : They come as Social Security staffing is at a 50-year low, according to the union for those workers, and as new rules kick in that will increase office visits.
18% : Rep. George Latimer addressed a gathering in Yonkers of local residents who were protesting Trump administration cuts to Social Security Administration YONKERS -- A parade of speakers and a fired-up crowd let loose on the Trump administration on Thursday, April 3, over deep staffing cuts in the agency that handles a vital safety-net program.

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