Federal employees protested en masse over the weekend as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency announced it would close 47 Social Security Administration offices across the country. Over a hundred people demonstrated outside a federal building in Raleigh,

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner said members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team are outsiders who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the agency’s programs.

Only time will tell if the prediction by Martin O’Malley, the former Social Security commissioner, is accurate.