Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) is a poster boy for the dishonesty and disregard for facts that warps the brains and souls of Trump’s boot-lickers. A prime example of his flagrant obfuscation occurred over the weekend of March 21-23. In his regular newsletter “Week in Review” on March 21, Loudermilk “defended” Musk’s indiscriminate decimation of federal human service agencies by citing phony statistics already proven to be false. Loudermilk stated that DOGE, after weeks of examining millions of records in the Social Security Administration's databases, found approximately 3.2 million number holders listed as being over the age of 120. DOGE, said Loudermilk, declared them as being deceased and removed them from the SS rolls.
The Washington Post on Monday, March 23 published a fact-based article that proved how wrong Loudermilk was. The article stated:
- “Some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate.
- Musk’s assertion that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped down by the agency’s acting head, who had been promoted because of his willingness to cooperate with DOGE.
- On February 19, Social Security acting commissioner Lee Dudek had issued a statement correcting Musk: "These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits."
Loudermilk wrote his newsletter 30 days after Dudek issued his statement. It's been 6 days since Loudermilk published his erroneous newsletter. He apparently has made no effort to issue a correction.
This incident is the tip of the iceberg of the horrendous result of electing Donald Trump as President and his puppet Barry Loudermilk as a U.S. Congressman. The worst is plainly yet to come.