{"id":72494,"date":"2026-04-23T06:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/democrats-say-cuts-to-social-security-have-caused-customer-service-chaos-for-american-seniors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:55:31","slug":"democrats-say-cuts-to-social-security-have-caused-customer-service-chaos-for-american-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/democrats-say-cuts-to-social-security-have-caused-customer-service-chaos-for-american-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats say cuts to social security have caused \u2018customer service chaos\u2019 for American seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report from Elizabeth Warren calls Trump administration cuts to Social Security Administration \u2018catastrophic\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cuts to the Social Security Administration have caused \u201ccustomer service chaos\u201d for millions of older Americans and those with disabilities who rely on the agency\u2019s services, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/report_for_the_one_year_anniversary_of_the_social_security_war_room.pdf\">new report <\/a>from a group of Democratic senators.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation found that phone wait times were more than 10 times higher than what the agency claimed on its website, if the calls were even answered at all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/23\/democrats-social-security-office-benefits-trump-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from Elizabeth Warren calls Trump administration cuts to Social Security Administration \u2018catastrophic\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Cuts to the Social Security Administration have caused \u201ccustomer service chaos\u201d for millions of older Americans and those with disabilities who rely on the agency\u2019s services, according &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats say cuts to social security have caused \u2018customer service chaos\u2019 for American seniors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/democrats-say-cuts-to-social-security-have-caused-customer-service-chaos-for-american-seniors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats say cuts to social security have caused \u2018customer service chaos\u2019 for American seniors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}