Well, the breaking news tonight is that Elon Musk is now inside Social Security.

And so for the first time in American history, Social Security payments are not guaranteed.

Since the delivery of the first Social Security check in 1940 to the first Social Security recipient, Ida May Fuller, Social Security checks have never been a day late or a dollar short, not once.

But Elon Musk's illegal specialty when he takes over agencies of the federal government is to stop payments.

And so the 71 million people who receive Social Security payments every month

for the first time in history can no longer be sure if the next payment is coming.

Michelle King was the acting commissioner of Social Security until either yesterday or today. Rumors started reaching me

early this afternoon from people with expert knowledge of the workings of Social Security

that the Musk coup at Social Security was underway. There is a line of succession for acting

commissioners of Social Security. When a commissioner of Social Security leaves office

before a new commissioner has been confirmed by the Senate, then the deputy commissioner shall be the

acting commissioner, according to that written line of succession. And that is exactly how Michelle

King, who has been with the Social Security Administration since 1994, took office.

But when Michelle King was forced out of that office, the line of succession was violated.

And Donald Trump appointed another Social Security employee, Leland Dudec, as the acting

commissioner of Social Security after Leland Dudec posted favorable comments about

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government efficiency on social media.

Leland Dudec was a senior advisor at Social Security for the Office of Program Integrity.

That means he was an IT guy.

The IT guy is now the acting commissioner of

Social Security, the single biggest item in the federal budget, way bigger than the Defense

Department. There was no reason to believe that this day could ever come. Yes, Republicans opposed the

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