Elon Musk harshly criticized on Social Security, Medicare, immigrants

The world’s wealthiest man made a provocative statement that prompted a strong rebuke.

May 7, 2025 - 13:15
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Elon Musk harshly criticized on Social Security, Medicare, immigrants

Billionaire Elon Musk has never been a stranger to controversy, but some recent comments he made about immigrants, Medicare and Social Security elicited a thoughtful response from a research fellow at the Center for Retirement Research.

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, also an economics professor at Boston College, explained that as a general rule he would rather stay out of day-to-day news cycle drama, but those words got his attention.