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Social Security Boss’ Job Status Unclear Following Inauguration The White House named Commissioner Andrew Saul among its list of “acting” agency officials, despite the fact that he has five years remaining in his term. The future of Andrew Saul as commissioner of the Social Security Administration was uncertain Thursday, after the Biden administration included his name on a list of “acting” agency officials and two key aides were replaced shortly after the new president’s inauguration. Saul has been a controversial leader of the agency responsible for delivering checks to ...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Social Security Unions Urge Biden to Oust Agency Leadership on Day One Although most political appointees are expected to resign ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration next week, the two top employees at the Social Security Administration have terms that run until 2025. Leaders of two unions representing employees at the Social Security Administration on Tuesday called on President-elect Biden to oust agency Commissioner Andrew Saul and Deputy Commission...

Position where we're passing along information. all i can tell them is if you can file for unemployment, file for unemployment. file for whatever social program is out there that can assist you. there's nothing internal within fema's union or within the afge that we have right now that we can offer to the employees to offset this stop work. >> you know, as i wrap this up, is there an expression or something that you're using to get by every day or an adjective, adverb to help you? does anyone want to take a stab at that? fran, sherry, gary. >> you have three branches of government to ensure th...

Potentially being fired if they're not doing their work. that's all that's being attempted here. >> congressman there is a point here as well. this organization, the afge, endorsed hillary clinton for president in 2016. can this action be separated from politics at the end of the day? >> no, i think, again, we had a very successful tax reform package that passed recently that's giving more to the economy. in order to pay for that we need to make sure public employee unions are performing accordingly. what they are trying to say is 25% of your workday, you know, going towards union activities, ...

Unions are saying this amounts to an assault on civil servants. >> sarah westwood, thanks so much. let's learn more about what this means. >> we want to bring in u.s. senate candidate jeff diehl. he's former state co-chairman for the trump campaign in massachusetts as well. thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. first and foremost, if this is the president's attempt to drain the swamp, we have jay david cox, another statement from him, the president of the afge who said this is more than union busting. it's democracy busting. what do you think? >> i don't gray. my mother was a unio...