Trump White House Takes 100-day Victory Lap On Reforming Key Agency Amid Fierce Pushback

FIRST ON FOX: As President Trump marks his first 100 days successful agency connected Tuesday, nan management is touting each of their fulfilled run promises erstwhile it comes to Social Security, an rumor wherever he has been overmuch maligned by Democrats and immoderate successful nan media.

"I americium proud of nan bonzer activity by our dedicated labor astatine SSA to thief present connected President Trump’s committedness to protect Social Security," Lee Dudek, acting commissioner of nan Social Security Administration (SSA), told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

"They person worked tirelessly to amended customer work while safeguarding Americans’ hard-earned benefits from waste, fraud, and abuse. It will return clip to afloat retrieve from nan disastrous policies of nan erstwhile administration, which led to sky-high hold times for customer work and unconscionable delays for use decisions," Dudek continued. "But SSA labor are starring nan turnaround by refocusing their activity connected frontline customer service, modernizing IT for a amended customer experience, and bolstering programme integrity." 

The administration, which has called Trump’s first 100 days nan astir successful of immoderate administration, says that it has made "significant strides" successful moving nan Social Security Fairness Act guardant and has paid complete $14.8 cardinal successful retroactive payments to complete 2 cardinal individuals affected by nan Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset.

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The Trump management is touting its improvements to Social Security during President Donald Trump's first 100 days. (Getty)

Trump’s moves connected Social Security travel arsenic Democrats, including former President Joe Biden, person accused nan management of plotting to slash Social Security benefits, peculiarly done nan Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE's) efforts to betterment nan agency. 

However, nan management says that it is focused connected reforms, not cutting benefits, and a White House charismatic told Fox News Digital that SSA has identified complete $1 cardinal successful costs avoidance aliases efficiencies for fiscal twelvemonth 2025 "through new, common-sense approaches successful areas specified arsenic payroll, accusation technology, contracts and grants, existent property, printing, travel, and acquisition paper policies."

Examples see reducing package licensing, salvaging and repairing tables and chairs, returning leased centrifugal vehicles, converting in-person training to online, streamlining lawsuit duty and search systems, and reducing recreation paper spending allowances. 

Additionally, nan White House charismatic says nan agency has made strides successful implementing fraud prevention tools, including devices that thief place fraudulent claims via telephone.

Many, including DOGE main Elon Musk, person raised concerns astir nan accuracy of Social Security records, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to information related to whether a personification is deceased aliases still connected nan rolls contempt being good complete 100 years old. 

The White House told Fox News Digital that advancement has been made connected that beforehand arsenic good to amended nan accuracy of decease information and called that effort a "high priority" that was a debased privilege successful nan erstwhile administration.

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Social Security card. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

Musk has drawn nan ire of Democrats by referring to Social Security arsenic a "Ponzi scheme."

Fox News Digital said to an master earlier this twelvemonth who made nan lawsuit that Musk has a constituent successful utilizing nan word "Ponzi scheme."

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DOGE leader Elon Musk has been deed pinch 96% antagonistic sum connected ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts, according to nan Media Research Center. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

"Musk’s connection astir Social Security being nan world's biggest Ponzi strategy does person validity," James Agresti, president of nan nonprofit investigation institute Just Facts, told Fox News Digital successful consequence to pushback from Musk's claim, which included a "false" rating from Politifact. 

"A Ponzi strategy operates by taking money from caller investors to salary existent investors. That's nan meaning fixed by nan SEC, and contrary to celebrated belief, that's precisely really Social Security operates."