- Howard Lungick faces a counter coupling for rejected concerns about missed social security checks.
- A former Social Security Commissioner called his comments as “rider contempt” and “total ignorance”.
- Lutnick’s comments are a focal point in the rallies that protest against the trigger of the SSA offices.
Howard Lunick, the billionaire trade secretary, is struck online on his comments on Thursday that his 94-year-old mother-in-law would not complain about a Missed Social Security verification And that someone who would be a “fraudster”.
“Let’s say Social security I did not send their checks this month-my mother-in-law, who is 94 years old, she would not call and would not complain, “said Lodnick, the host of the All-in Podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya.” A fraudster always makes the strongest noise, screaming, screaming and complaining. “”
Based on an information sheet published by the Social Security Administration, more than 7 million Americans aged 65 and over receive at least 90% of their income from benefits.
Social Security employees have warned that the Trump administration plan to reduce 7,000 SSA employees will be delayed in checking benefits and could extend the waiting time for two to three times.
According to the billionaire Bloomberg index, the net value of Lutnick was at least $ 2.2 billion in February 2025.
You will find below the reactions to the comments of Lutnick of the main business leaders, commentators and political leaders. Howard Lunick and the Ministry of Commerce did not respond to requests for comments.
Mark Cuban
In a post on Bluesky, Cuban Republished a screenshot of a press article on Laric’s comments on missed Social Security Check and asked: “Huard Lutnick did something of value as a secretary to trade?”
Reality TV shows the billionaire, who identifies as an independent in politics, Félicité Trump For having won the elections in November and, in an interview in 2016 with Rolling Stone, described his association with the president of “romantic relationship”.
Martin O’malley, former governor of Maryland and SSA commissioner
“Social security is a rescue buoy for millions of Americans,” O’malley said on Friday evening at Rachel Maddow Show. “40% of elderly people living alone depend entirely on social security to keep away from poverty.”
“The contempt of the rider, the total ignorance of how so many Americans live on a daily basis, is appalling, and is a cruelness at the center of our government that we have never seen before,” he added.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American teachers’ federation
During the social security rally at White Plains, New York, where the Trump administration should close a Social Security office, Weingarten, president of the second largest work union of the teacher, started his speech by promising that “people will win” Elon Musk and Lutnick.
“We did not vote for Elon Musk to call Social Security a Ponzi program,” she said. “We did not vote for Howard Lutnick to say:” Oh don’t worry, no elderly, including my mother, would not care not to remove their social security checks. “”
Jim Clyburn, member of the Congress
In an article on X, Clyburn, representative of the 6th district of the Southern Carolina Congress, wrote that “billionaires from the Trump administration have no idea that it is to rely on social security won thanks to a hard and honest work life”.
The post also presents a viral clip of Lutnick’s comments on the Podcast All-in, where the hosts of the Chamath Palihapitiya and David Friedberg show did not directly dispute it.
Rachel Maddow
The longtime host of the MSNBC played a video of the comments of the Social Security of Lutnick on the all-in podcast, and said that “was a political disaster” she almost had to turn her eyes because she “cannot bear to look at him”.
“How does it behave with what you understand from the reality of obtaining social security control, and which, in your life, you know, receives social security control?” She asked before playing Lutnick’s clip for the second time.
According to TV Insider, the Rachel Maddow show reached an average of more than 1.7 million viewers in total in great listening in January and has remained one of the most popular programs on MSNBC for years.
Chuck Schumer, head of the Senate minority
Schumer republished the now famous clip of Lutnick of the all-in Podcast on X and called the Secretary of Commerce “a billionaire out of contact” who is “heartless or heartless”.
“Howard Lungick does not understand what a failed social security check means for a fixed income senior,” he added.
Schumer recently faced criticism from democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that he is not doing enough to fight government closure.
Ben Collins, CEO of the onion
Collins, the CEO of the New Satirical Website, published on Bluesky a hypothetical response from Lutnick to a person in need, contrary to the way he would hypothetically react to an AI defense entrepreneur asking for $ 10 billion.
“80 years old, hugging to death: money? For food please?
Lutnick: Avast, Grifter!
The defense entrepreneur who met Peter Thiel once and made Ai-Bazookas who shoot wandering dogs: I need $ 10 billion … for reasons
LITNICK: Say less sir, yes sir, right in this way, sir “