GOP will pay a price in November for Social Security chaos

GOP will pay a price in November for Social Security chaos

In March, the U-T Editorial Board wrote that severe staffing cuts at the Social Security Administration — nominally a part of the “Department of Government Efficiency” campaign to reduce spending and shed unneeded workers — looked like a back-door attempt to control the spiraling cost of entitlements by making it harder for older Americans to get benefits they’d been promised. That month, we also published an essay by Kathleen O’Neil, a 97-year-…