President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration said during his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday that he has not spoken about privatizing the agency and pledged to protect the agency during cuts.
“I’ve never thought about privatizing,” Frank Bisignano said during the Senate Finance Committee hearing in response to a question about potential privatization.
“It’s not a word that anybody’s ever talked to me about, and I don’t see this institution as anything other than a government agency that gets run for the benefit of the American public.”
In the hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the ranking member on the Finance Committee, alleged that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) want to make cuts to Social Security....
