European Leaders PUNCH BACK at Trump and ISOLATE HIM | Global AF

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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Baird financial services analyst Ben Kallo warned that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's political antics could be destroying the valuation of his company.

During a Monday morning report, CNBC host Carl Quintanilla offered investors bad news about Tesla's stock value.

"Tesla posing its 7th straight week of declines," he announced. "It's longest losing streak on record. Shares are now trading at their lowest level since the election. It is the worst performing stock in the S&P 500 so far this year."

Kallo explained why the company was struggling.

"It's going to continue to perpetuate the narrative of Musk destroying demand out there," he told Quintanilla.

"Yeah, well, is that just noise and just a narrative, or is that actually observably happening right here?" Quintanilla asked.

"Well, I think that, you know, when people's cars are in jeopardy of being keyed or, you know, set on fire out there, even people that support Musk or are indifferent to Musk might think twice about buying a Tesla," Kallo said. "But I do think that with the production ramp impacting deliveries, that's the bigger thing that will continue that narrative of demand at risk."

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"And so I think that we have at least a couple of months until we determine if he's attracting more buyers or losing more buyers, which I've seen the argument out there from my fellow analysts all over the place," he continued. "But there's a lot of uncertainty here."

"It's very plausible that demand is being destructed. I would say in Europe, even more plausible."

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