Bernie Sanders forced Social Security Administration chief nominee Frank Bisignano into giving him an honest answer as he methodically grilled him about DOGE’s cuts to the administration’s workforce in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) grilled Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration (SSA), in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, being unsatisfied with how Bisiginano was ducking his questions about staff cuts.

Advocates for retirees and the disabled say privatizing the agency could result in reduced benefit payments to millions of Americans.

Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only "fraudsters" would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and that most people wouldn't mind if the government simply skipped a payment.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick misspoke when he commented about citizen reactions to the Trump administration's handling of Social Security -- at least, that’s what Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick seems to think.