Former Social Security Chief Martin O'Malley Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk's Cuts

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Source: Rolling Stone

Former Social Security Chief Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk’s Cuts

Justin Glawe
Tue, March 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM EDT 14 min read

MIAMI — On Friday night, former Social Security head Martin O’Malley faced some of the rage that Democratic and Republican members of Congress have been confronted with in recent weeks as the Trump administration ravages the federal government and threatens programs like Social Security. O’Malley was there to detail not just what the Trump administration is going to harm the program, but how Americans can stop it.

The rage came in a gleaming, progressive Methodist church on the ninth floor of a high rise overlooking the Biscayne Bay as O’Malley answered questions from a small audience of seniors who had gathered at one of a handful of events across Florida in recent days. It came from a 61-year-old Cuban-American retiree and Marine veteran named Enrique Tamayo.

“I have to say that sitting here and listening to you speak is frustrating because we are at war,” Tamayo said as O’Malley listened and the room tensed up. “Our country is being taken over. Our programs, our entitlements are being dismantled. What I feel is that we’re bringing a knife to a gunfight.”

O’Malley, the former Democratic Maryland governor, had been telling attendees to call their congressional representatives to urge them to protect Social Security as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) makes cuts to the agency that, O’Malley says, are already “90 percent of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.”

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