Donald Trump empowered Elon Musk to audit the Executive Branch.
His discoveries have been mind-blowing.
And Elon Musk just uncovered the most shocking amount of government fraud yet.
Billions in waste
During the 2024 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that he would appoint Elon Musk to run the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.
Musk and his DOGE team have been on the job for less than a month, and they have already uncovered a motherlode of malfeasance.
For instance, there is still fallout from the disclosures regarding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Now the DOGE team is ringing alarm bells at the Social Security Administration.
According to Musk, there were strange errors of people hundreds of years old allegedly receiving payments.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) tried to attack Musk and the DOGE team by writing, “I want to save billions of your money and make our government more efficient. Rummaging through your personal shit is *not* that. A party of chaos loses—always.”
Musk responded, “Bruh, if I wanted to rummage through random personal s***, I could have done that at PAYPAL. Hello??? Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as ‘ALIVE’ when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem. Obviously. Some of these people would have been alive before America existed as a country. Think about that for a second …”
According to a screenshot provided by Musk, there are millions of people over the age of 120 years old, including thousands over 200 years old, marked as alive.
Bruh, if I wanted to rummage through random personal shit, I could have done that at PAYPAL. Hello???
Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as “ALIVE” when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem.
Obviously.
Some of these people would have been alive… https://t.co/L17rSBR1Tb pic.twitter.com/6hBqAJ5TbF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Potential Social Security fraud
That does not mean that all of those people are getting social security checks, but the database clearly needs to be cleaned up.
Also, some people are fraudulently receiving checks, which even The New York Times admitted.
The paper reported, “An audit produced by the Social Security Administration’s inspector general last year found that from 2015 to 2022, the agency paid almost $8.6 trillion in benefits and made approximately $71.8 billion, or less than 1 percent, in improper payments that usually involved recipients getting too much money.”
That is still a lot of waste, and the audit did not seem to clean up the database, so clearly there are still problems at the administration.
The recent hubbub over the Social Security Administration spurred a public resignation.
The Times added, “The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down this weekend after members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency sought access to sensitive personal data about millions of Americans held by the agency, according to people familiar with the matter.”
The media have tried to sell the narrative that Musk and his DOGE team are attempting to steal private data.
“The resignation of Michelle King, the acting commissioner, is the latest abrupt departure of a senior federal official who refused to provide Mr. Musk’s lieutenants with access to closely held data,” The Times also reported. “Mr. Musk’s team has been embedding with agencies across the federal government and seeking access to private data as part of what it has said is an effort to root out fraud and waste.”
It’s amazing to see the Democrats melting down over a simple audit.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
