President Donald Trump plans to fulfill his campaign promise to end taxes on Social Security benefit income. A new report finds that will benefit high earners.

An obscure data analyst who had been placed on leave as he was being investigated for allegedly violating privacy and tax laws, was saved by Donald Trump who then rewarded him by appointing him to acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

By Eli Hager - President Donald Trump was asked at a press conference this month if there were any federal agencies or programs that Elon Musk’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency wouldn’t be allowed to mess with.

President Donald Trump incorrectly interpreted data shared by Elon Musk when he falsely claimed on Feb. 18 that “millions and millions of people over 100 years old” receive improper benefits from Social Security.

Before President Donald Trump started mass layoffs of federal workers, he demonized them, arguing, despite evidence to the contrary, that most of them never went into the office.

The Republicans have wanted to privatize Social Security and Medicare pretty much since the start of both safety-net programs. They have tried a few times, most memorably after the 2004 presidential election,

President Donald Trump pledged that his moves to cut government waste and spending will not affect Social Security payments to Americans. “Social Security won’t be touched, other than if there’s fraud or something,

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are falsely implying that millions of dead Americans are receiving Social Security benefits, experts told ABC News.

The former commissioner of the Social Security Administration on Tuesday ripped into “co-presidents” Donald Trump and Elon Musk, along with DOGE’s band of “19-year-old nitwits,” and called them the “biggest threat” to the continued existence of the 90-year-old program so critical to millions of Americans.

Numerous changes being made at federal government agencies after President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to "implement the president's agenda by modernizing federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency."

The president and his allies are already laying the groundwork to renege on promises not to cut Medicare or Social Security.