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Karoline Leavitt: Trump, Elon Musk's DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised 'for decades'
Fox News ^ | February 18, 2025 | Fox Staff

Posted on 02/18/2025 11:41:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listen to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk and our entire administration, who are saying the exact same things that Democrat politicians promised the American people they would do for decades. President Trump is just the first president in our lifetimes to actually do it. And now you see the Democrat Party and the mainstream media spiraling out of control about a very simple promise: rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from our federal bureaucracy. This is a promise President Trump campaigned on. He is now delivering on it.

I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fearmonger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks. So I want to set the record straight on your show tonight, Sean, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do so. President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the Doge team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven't dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments and so their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things: Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them...

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Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased people who are no longer living and should no longer be receiving that money and number three, to protect the integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire lives.
1 posted on 02/18/2025 11:41:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

That message needs to be heard on a broader platform than just Fox News.


2 posted on 02/18/2025 11:43:44 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: Navy Patriot

TOO BAD TRUMP DIDN’T HAVE THIS TEAM in 2020.
BUT—We would not have appreciated them nearly as much.

PICKING UP THE ELEPHANT DROPPINGS FROM BIDEN is MORE VISIBLE TO THE VOTERS NOW.


3 posted on 02/18/2025 11:44:25 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Navy Patriot

Audit of the old Admin should be done before a new Admin takes over , Politicians can’t be trusted


4 posted on 02/18/2025 11:45:04 AM PST by butlerweave
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So rest assured to all of the people watching your show tonight, if you paid into the system, honestly, you will continue to receive your Social Security checks. Do not buy into the lies from the legacy fake news media, who are trying to fear you and scare you into believing otherwise. This is what we’ve seen them do about President Trump for years with every promise that he has made, and he’s going in there to protect your hard-earned money. That is the ultimate goal.


5 posted on 02/18/2025 11:45:39 AM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

That was a great segment, despite Hannity. Maybe Karoline is one person who he will shutup and let speak without interrupting.


6 posted on 02/18/2025 11:48:32 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Navy Patriot

So…did she play the videos of Obama and Clinton?


7 posted on 02/18/2025 11:48:39 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Your notes elude to it but one of the most concerning things to me is data quality. There are companies out there with a 98% degree of confidence that Michael A Smith in Any City, America is who they say they are.


8 posted on 02/18/2025 11:54:23 AM PST by Mean Daddy
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To: Navy Patriot

Democrats and their perennial promises. I spent years, decades wondering when their voters would catch on.


9 posted on 02/18/2025 12:02:32 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s amazing how Democrats and their autocrat allies in the bureaucracy have for decades plundered vast amounts of taxpayer wealth. But then when Trump and Musk begin putting a stop to it and ending the plundering, the Democrats insanely try to claim it is Musk and Trump, somehow, who are the real thieves. Their claims are completely incoherent, but there is a fraction of brainwashed people who will echo their claims no matter how insane.


10 posted on 02/18/2025 12:05:05 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Cobra64
Karoline linked them at the bottom of the article, here:

Obama and Biden

11 posted on 02/18/2025 12:21:36 PM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I troll the left on Yahoo Finance.

They are losing their minds.

It is just to easy to ask them why they support FWA.
You can hear veins popping in the responses.


12 posted on 02/18/2025 12:28:58 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Everyone knew it was going on. Everyone said something should be done about it. Nobody ever lifted a finger to do so. Until Trump. Now those who are getting their ox gored are wailing and gnashing their teeth. This only proves they were supporting the status quo to keep the flow going from the government coffers to their own filthy pockets.


13 posted on 02/18/2025 12:40:11 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: fidelis

You are exactly correct!


14 posted on 02/18/2025 12:49:11 PM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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"Karoline Leavitt: Trump, Elon Musk's DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised 'for decades'"

Pelosi's promise to "clean house."

"It is long past time for the Congress to address the systemic Republican culture of corruption that has undermined the American people's confidence in this institution...I am proud that some of the best minds in our Caucus will be leading the Democratic effort to clean up the corrupt Republican Congress. These great leaders will work to restore truth and trust to the People's House." - Jan 2006


15 posted on 02/18/2025 12:51:30 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Figure out who’s been cashing the checks and make them pay all the money back and send them to jail too.


16 posted on 02/18/2025 12:59:58 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that I was kicked off the Ping list.)
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To: Navy Patriot

She needs to go one step further and play these kind of clips to the press corps before she comes out.

Trump should run ads with these clips calling it the Obama-Clinton plan and actually give them credit for their visionary outlook.

It will send the left into a tissy fit as usual


17 posted on 02/18/2025 1:15:08 PM PST by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Navy Patriot

Thanks!


18 posted on 02/18/2025 1:41:40 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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