WASHINGTON — The commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, came to the federal government after spending years in finance. What he says he didn’t anticipate was that Washington would be more cutthroat than Wall Street.

“The fact that things we are doing are enhancing the client experience, and people are saying it's worse,” Bisignano said in an exclusive interview with Spectrum News.

Ahead of his Senate confirmation, Democrats called on President Donald Trump to pull Bisignano’s nomination.

“His claim to fame is cutting and shrinking,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in March. “(He’s) the last person we need to run the Social Security office.”

At the time, the Trump administration had already began to reduce the size of the federal governm

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