This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back.

So I got my email this morning from Social Security Works and today would be a great day

for Joe Biden to fire Social Security Administration Commissioner Andrew Saul and Deputy Commissioner

David Black.

Yeah, these two trumpies are still running the Social Security Administration making

it harder for people to access their benefits, making it easier to strip people of disability

benefits, stuff like that.

But that's just the stuff that's like bubbled up to the surface, up to the very top.

There's a fascinating piece published over at Common Dreams titled Advocates Sound Alarm

Over Quiet Trump Era Move That Could Further Privatize Medicare.

And I'm like, oh, Medicare works really, really well, at least in my experience.

I've been on it for five years and I love it.

So what's the deal?

Let's check in with our old buddy Alex Lawson Executive Director at Social Security Works.

Socialsecurityworks.org is the website also strengthensocialsecurity.org.

And Alex, of course, you can tweet him at SS Works or at a law 202.

Alex, welcome back to the program.

Tell me about this trump, what little trick are they trying to play here with us on Social Security?

You know, in a lot of our discussions, you talk about how they've drilled holes in Medicare.

That's where they insert the for-profit companies into our public programs.

And this is that, exactly that.

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