Arthur Delaney here. I’m a senior politics reporter at HuffPost. I’ve been covering politics, the economy and Congress here for 16 years.
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Our news coverage is also guided by what matters to our audience — what’s important to you.
When we have a major story, we get a big response, and I’ve often asked readers to send tips or share their own stories, which has allowed me to include regular people’s voices in stories about government policy changes.
Right now we’re seeing some intense reader interest in Social Security, which is under threat from President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser, Elon Musk (speaking of weird rich guys). Trump has promised he would never touch Social Security, and yet he and Musk have been continuously claiming, falsely, that the program is full of fraud.
I covered the first Trump administration’s efforts to cut Social Security disability benefits; now Trump and Musk are trying to dismantle the Social Security Administration alongside other federal agencies. And we’re seeing something else: the weaponization of one of the most popular programs in the U.S.
After Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, stood up to Trump at the White House, the Social Security Administration canceled vital records contracts with the state, prompting its department of health to tell parents of newborns they would no longer be able to check a box at the hospital to request Social Security numbers for their babies.
The contracts were quickly reinstated amid an uproar, but we didn’t let it go. During a press call about plans to cut phone service, I asked Social Security’s acting director if he had some kind of beef with Mills for disrespecting Trump — and he admitted that he did. One Democratic congresswoman immediately called on him to resign. Only HuffPost had the story.
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