Seniors suffer 'maddening' wait times for Social Security calls thanks to Trump’s mass layoffs

Seniors suffer 'maddening' wait times for Social Security calls thanks to Trump’s mass layoffs

Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House nine months ago, his administration has — with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — brought mass layoffs to a variety of federal government agencies, from the National Weather Service (NWS) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). And Trump has toyed with the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (F…