Axios: Scoop: Senate Dems to launch Social Security war room

Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The White House is planning service cuts to Social Security that current and former officials warn would break an already strained system.

• The war room will serve as a central hub for Senate Democrats to plan messaging, create content, provide oversight, make field visits and host town halls to pummel the GOP on the issue.
• The Trump administration is planning to cut some identity verification phone services at the Social Security Administration next month, after postponing the move last week.
• Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) organized the war room, we are told.

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