A fierce debate over how to reform Social Security is playing out in the nation’s capital as the program’s long-term solvency is in question and amid new efforts to cut staff and restrict services from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. 

The push to reform the program, which delivers a monthly check to some 70 million people, came as President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency will testify before the Senate on Tuesday.

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