Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo comes to the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center at 10 a.m. to give what business and community leaders hope will be a more detailed view of his pledge for $1 billion in economic development aid for the Buffalo Niagara region. He’s also expected to talk about what’s ahead for the UB2020 plan and the $101 million the state is investing in our Regional Economic Development Plan.
Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson will launch a video podcast in the coming days with new episodes dropping weekly, the former first lady confirmed on Monday.
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Plans by the Donald Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), helmed by billionaire Elon Musk, to dismantle the Social Security Administration, were trashed by a former Democratic senator on Wednesday morning.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said the staffers working DOGE, with an assist from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), hope to slash half the Social Security staffers.
That, she claimed, would not only backfire, but is a sign they have no idea what they are doing.
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With "Morning Joe" regular Elise Jordan pointing out, "We were talking off camera about just how often you, when you were in office, you had to utilize the local social security offices to really get issues resolved by a caseworker who was local and in person. And I mean, just in terms of practicality, people who are on Social Security tend to be a little bit older. They aren't necessarily going to be as web savvy and immediately able to use the internet to solve whatever problem they have," McCaskill weighed in:
"I would like Elon Musk to sit down with a woman who is struggling with her benefits after her husband has died and trying to reconcile an error in the documents" the Missouri Democrat replied. "I would love him to sit down and talk to one of those people, instead of just assuming that tech can solve everything."
"It's so naive, it's so stupid," she bluntly stated.
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What a difference two years can make.
Well, two years and nearly $300 million.
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