The Social Security Administration (SSA) and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced that five new Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Units opened across the country this week. Given that Social Security revenues exceeded outgo by $35 billion in 2016 alone, and that its trust funds hold combined assets of nearly $2.8 trillion, there is no need for lawmakers to so harshly restrict spending for SSA’s operating expenses. First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country.

Starting March 17, 2014, veterans who have a VA compensation rating of 100{038fb2ef5c1b7aeaab104e24389b2fd3cf34e6bad75a3e48d47ab0d8cb499c83} permanent and total (P&T) may receive expedited processing of applications for Social Security disability benefits. To this point, Social Security’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review …