The money THEOR PARENTS PAID INTO AND WORKED TOWARDS. They are literally entitled to it. It is their parent money!!!
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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Warning everyone that I could not find a source for this and this Twitter post isn't any evidence in itself. So if you're saying I told you so, then you're just as susceptible as the people who believe $300m was being sent to 11yos without any explanation.
I found two sources for this info.
Who could see their Social Security benefits stopped?
Government Executive reports that the SSA memo proposes ceasing payments that are made to people without Social Security numbers. While people without an SSN are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits of their own, there are scenarios where they can accept benefits on behalf of an eligible person who does have an SSN as that person’s “representative payee.”
A link in that text goes to https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/ssa-weighs-axing-payments-170000-beneficiaries/403740/ and it gives an example:
That task could be arduous, as finding payees is already so difficult that at times the agency turns to institutional payees like child welfare agencies, said Romig. SSA staff also have to assess the suitability of payees.
“Say you’re a kid and you don’t have a payee for a while — they stop paying the benefit until they sort it out,” she said of the potential for interruptions to benefits.
It may be that the OP read that and extrapolated it to mean orphans would be cut off ... which may or may not be true.
Those are for SSA, not SBA. They don't explain why SBA would be brokering business loans with 11yos. There is likely a valid explanation here, but the media doesn't need to get up in arms until more details are available.
DOGE looks to be what's getting all up in arms here. If there's suspicion of corruption, investigate, Don't just cut it all off! This isn't a car factory, it's food and shelter, aka the economy!
Of course I think he knows this and is actually trying to bring about a recession so he can seize whatever power he can
I agree, but the Twitter post isn't DOGE and is potentially incorrect. You don't battle disinformation with more disinformation.
I don't see anything about SBA in the articles above.
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Thanks for making it national news, major national media. Good work.
So billionaires can take daddy's money but not the poors? Got it.
The best part is how his efficiency improvements will cost the government half a trillion dollars 😆
Efficiently extracting tax dollars into private bank accounts.
They've also cut PEPFAR. PEPFAR is a program which, among other things, provides antiretrovirals to people with HIV/AIDS in poorer countries. Approximately twenty million people, including half a million children will now start to slowly die without access to these drugs.
For comparison's sake, Hitler killed 13.6 million people. History is very likely to end up remembering Trump as the single deadliest regime in history.
That's some Heritage Foundation level of undercutting Hitler's death toll.
Literal supervillainy.
Some orphans will take matters into their own hand
Caucescu 2: Electric Boogaloo
Is there a source for this, I'm genuinely interested in reading more about this but can't find a source.
It's a screenshot of a tweet, I don't know what further proof you could want. Did you not see the blue checkmark? /s
I'm really interested to see any reputable articles confirming this. Google searches didn't show anything, 1 press conference on Reddit, 1 instagram post
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/how-jeff-bezos-made-peace-with-donald-trump/
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/g-s1-29665/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/media/cbs-news-trump-60-minutes-legal-threat/index.html
You're going to see a lot of news stories falling through the cracks in our modern Trump-friendly media landscape.
For those experiencing the same confusion as myself: those are not sources for the orphan/survivor benefits story, they're possible reasons why the media might not be reporting the story.
It’s stopping direct loans applications by people under 18, nothing about actual payments. When are dumb fucks going to learn Tweets aren’t sources?
I’m so glad the leftist plan to beat the right is be as completely critically illiterate as they are. Just cede the movement to the maniacs now because once the conspiracy theorists take root it’s a short stroll to leftist QAnon
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This only ends one way, with nooses and guillotines. It is up to the people how quickly it ends.
I pulled up next to a guy the other day and the passenger looked like Elon at first glance. My first thought was if I could shoot him in the face and escape long enough to at least make a few phone calls. That's how much this guy deserves to be deleted. I'd risk my life to end it all.
Elon Musk is ultra paranoid for a reason. He has 20 bodyguards on a normal day and also has a secret service detail. He is not an easy target.
There's good reason to be paranoid. 400 yards is a cake shot for even a mediocre sniper. Just about any gun store today sells top notch sniper rifles.
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Did they actually cut it off? (Even if temporarily?)
Yeah, I am not doubting that this happened, because in the mix of callousness and incompetence on display, it isn't unlikely. But a source would be much appreciated, still.
Here's a Snopes review of what I think is the same specific topic.
It mentions nothing about these being orphan support payments, but rather, these being possibly incorrectly typed SSNs that resulted in their recordkeeping systems assuming, based on the information tied to those SSNs, that the borrowers were, say, 11 years old, when in actuality they were not, and the SSNs had just been inputted incorrectly, even if all other borrower information was accurate.
They also didn't stop these funds, as they were already given out. They're simply "reviewing" them.
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Elon after labeling orphans as fraudsters and taking away their survivor benefits that they are entitled to and deserve: "God, I just sniffle I don't understand why people hate me crocodile tears"
well then it is settled he is the embodiment of orphan crushing machine
Talking about Odious Lusting After Fortunes
Please, Smithers, who are they going to complain to? Their parents?
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