Trump and Musk’s Chainsaw to Aging

Staff and Programs Already Hacked from Senior Services

Trump and Musk are taking a chainsaw to Aging Programs, the “death by a thousand cuts approach by axing major senior programs. That ensures health care for 7.2 million on Medicaid and 68 million on Medicare. Let’s start with Medicare and Medicaid. HHS and the dynamic duo of Musk and Robert Kennedy, through their death by a thousand cuts have fired thousands, adding to the slow torture of Medicaid and Medicare, where 1/3 of their staff – the Medicare and Medicaid Coordination office has been decimated. This hinders GPS navigation through the labyrinth of Medicaid and Medicare, hitting dual-eligible seniors the hardest, who are poor seniors who cannot cross the path to help alone.

Another Chainsaw to Aging Attack -Seniors with Disabilities

Another chainsaw to aging attack just started for seniors with disabilities by the slitting of the throat of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program by the death by a thousand cuts approach by not closing the program but axing all staff. Before cuts, by helping disabled seniors with heating and cooling bills, the program enabled low-income individuals to avoid extreme temperatures and high utility bills amid Trump’s enhanced climate change, which the President thinks is a hoax.

Hacked From Senior Services-Administration on Community Living

To help Doge torture with this vicious Chainsaw to Aging, another hacked from the senior service program is the Administration on Community Living, which helps elders age in place in their own homes, was cut. The “death by a thousand cuts” approach targets small programs first, aiming to deal its first blow by dismantling the Center for Policy and Evaluation, which handles employment services for seniors with disabilities, family caregiver support, and consumer rights and protections. All of these help seniors age in place. After slashing access to community living and community-based care providers, where will seniors turn when their homes and home care are no longer available? Perhaps to their adult children’s home, if the sandwich generation has the room and the capacity to care for them and their own children, and love them enough to take them in.Or perhaps to Nursing homes, where the guardrails that keep skilled nursing from harming residents are being lifted, such as lowering the staff-to-patient ratio and eliminating the Ombudsman.

Grey Haired Boomers are the largest group of Protesters.

If our image of a protester from the last few years was of a young person with blue hair, perhaps we need to update it to a retiree in Capri pants and a “world’s best grandma” shirt. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-protests-tariffs-doge-baby-boomers-photos-why-2025-4.

BUSINESS INSIDERS’ THEORY OF WHY GREY HAIR BLANKETS 2025 PROTESTS

Seniors are alarmed about programs hacked from senior services that deeply affect them, like the economy and their retirement investments, which have plummeted due to Trump’s tariffs. They are unnerved that Musk has sicced his “Muskrats” on Social Security because he thinks it is a Ponzi scheme, when they depend upon it and, by the way, have paid into it themselves. It may be, as Business Insider posits, that death by a thousand cuts has activated sleeper cells. Boomers lived through the ’60s and ’70s protests- they know what to do when someone takes things away from them: go to the streets. They pushed for civil rights, women’s rights went to Live Aid, Farm Aid hit the streets when the government, via the draft, ordered them to fight in Vietnam. And to become some of the disabled seniors and all of the veterans who have lost benefits thanks to Trump, Musk, and their bizarre partner, who spent 4 years at Harvard on heroin, Robert Kennedy Jr.

Do Something, As Michelle Obama Said

What can you do? Contact your Congressman and tell her or him that you do not agree with these cuts. Go to a town meeting if your congressman holds one. Join Indivisable. Together, we can solve this crisis in our democracy. If you feel paralyzed by fear or have not protested in some way about losing democracy to Trump, Elon Musk future, -refuse to remain silent because if we lose due process, you could be on a plane to El Salvador for the rest of your life