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1. Commerce secretary: No one but 'fraudsters' would complain about missed Social Security check

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:00 PM

Mar 2025

by Aris Folley - 03/21/25 4:33 PM ET

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised alarm over “fraudsters” receiving Social Security benefits, as Trump allies have ramped up rhetoric about potential waste in the program amid a major restructuring effort at the agency that oversees the program ...

At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain” ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5208187-commerce-secretary-social-security-fraud/

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