Schumer calls on Leland Dudek, acting commissioner of SSA, to resign

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. called on the head of President Donald Trump's Social Security Administration to resign on Tuesday.

"Dudek is bad medicine for our seniors," Schumer said from the podium.

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a hatchet man in Leland Dudek, an acting Commissioner with an emphasis on the 'acting,' because his real role is to dismantle the very office he is supposed to lead, make better, and protect," he continued. "We have seen his audition and his work on the stage, and it is clear: Dudek is incapable of doing this job in the way it needs to be done. He won't protect seniors. He will hurt them. Leland Dudek should resign."

"Republicans are trying to kill Social Security from the inside - it is a cut by another name - and we won't let that happen," Schumer said in another statement.

"Another Elon lie. He wants you to think anyone who dares to stand up to him is committing fraud, meanwhile he's taking tens of billions from the government," Schumer declared in a post last week.

"Make no mistake: What Elon Musk is doing at Social Security is cutting benefits," Schumer said.

"The intern running Schumer's social media account is lying," Musk shot back.

During a Senate speech, Schumer claimed that "Elon Musk is cutting Social Security benefits."

"When offices close down, when websites crash, when phone lines shut off, that's no different than cutting benefits," Schumer said.