'DOGE boys': Dems fume over spending cut spree at rally outside Trump's next potential target

Democratic legislators are fuming over the “DOGE kids” and their current crackdown on federal costs, holding a rally outside the recently formed cost-cutting department’s prospective next target: the Social Security Administration (SSA).

The Department of Federal Government Performance (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has actually been dealing with federal companies to recognize and cut inefficient costs. Most just recently, the group started penetrating the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Solutions (CMS) for prospective scams– a relocation that wasn’t invited by Democratic legislators who alerted that the SSA might be the next company on the target list.

On Monday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Ma., Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Ma., and Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Ma., collected for a rally outside the SSA head office in Baltimore to slam DOGE’s efforts.

” Whenever you hear DOGE, the Department of Federal Government Performance, you simply remember it is the department of federal government evil,” stated Mfume, a Maryland-based Democrat.

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Fox News Digital formerly reported that according to Simply Realities, a not-for-profit research study institute, SSA paid out approximately $2 billion in deceitful or inappropriate payments in 2022, which it determined sufficed “to pay 89,947 retired employees the typical yearly old-age advantage of $21,924 for 2023.”

Democrats, nevertheless, have actually declared that Americans’ Social Security advantages might be targeted.

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” We have one easy message, which is: Elon Musk, keep your hands off our Social Security,” Van Hollen informed the crowd.

Sen. Van Hollen informed Musk to ‘keep your hands off our Social Security.’ ( Getty Images)

” Over the last 21 days, we have actually seen Elon Musk performing unlawful raids on federal companies with his DOGE team,” the senator stated. “This is a dish for corruption by the DOGE kids.”

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Ma., speaking throughout the rally, declared that “the intent of this administration is to make us feel demoralized, to make much of us feel scared, to prompt worry, to silence individuals.”

A number of DOGE’s targets have actually varied from canceling a variety of variety, equity and addition (DEI) efforts at federal companies to combining duplicative companies and programs.

Angela Alsobrooks, Democratic U.S. Senate prospect from Maryland, and Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., are seen while welcoming citizens on the state’s main election day at Lewisdale Primary school in Chillum, Md., on Tuesday, Might 14, 2024. ( Tom Williams)

DOGE, since completion of January, stated that it was conserving the federal government $1 billion a day, primarily by “stopping the hiring of individuals into unneeded positions, removal of DEI and stopping inappropriate payments to foreign companies, all constant with the President’s Executive Orders.”

The efforts have actually been commonly declined by Democratic legislators, who have actually been collecting outdoors federal government company head offices in demonstration of the DOGE program.

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller and Eric Revell added to this report.