Posted on 03/19/2025 4:03:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Elon Musk and the Trump administration are pitching cuts in one of the most politically dangerous arenas in America — the Social Security Administration.
Musk has cast the idea as one that’s primarily about immigration, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes.
“By using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” Musk, the billionaire tech CEO behind the Department of Government Efficiency, said Monday on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast, without evidence. “And buy voters. Basically bring in 10, 20 million people who are beholden to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelmingly Democrat, as has been demonstrated in California.”
Musk told Cruz, R-Texas, that his efforts to end the fraud he alleges are why people on the left “hate my guts and want me to die.” He said the fraud has cost the government $100 billion to $200 billion.
It’s an argument Musk has been making repeatedly in recent weeks, as DOGE and the Trump administration announce and push for more cuts to the SSA, including eliminating thousands of employees from the already lean agency, ending the ability to make claims by phone and shuttering dozens of field offices that help seniors access their benefits.
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“Falsely claiming”. Okay. Theh know this because they have seen what DOGE has seen?
Has NBC used its fart checkers to check on the accuracy of this?
Musk and his crew have stared into the guts of SS bookkeeping. what research has NBC done?
Well, sounds like over the target on SS fraud. Keep digging until you find out how the political class is getting their skim off of this one.
Relying upon NBC news (and their ilk) for accurate reporting is simply a waste of time. Better to ignore them.
This is so other outlets can say, “It has been reported that ...”. Then they can move on to the it has been debunked stage.
They simply claim it is false, and it is. And they wonder why people don’t watch and believe them anymore.
Same folks who claimed xiden was running circles around everyone and sharp as a tack.
Please keep it up
How many of these still active SS#s for the millions over 100 years old are being used by illegals?
“Elon Musk is recommending that some bureaucrats be laid off.”
“He’s cutting my Social Security check?”
“No. He’s reducing SSA overhead so that there will be more money available.”
“Exactly how much smaller will my monthly check be??”
“Your check isn’t getting smaller. He’s just cutting fraud and increasing efficiency.”
“I can’t live on a smaller check! How will I afford eggs???”
“Eggs are a lot cheaper now. And your check is the same.”
“I hate that guy!”
For instance we now see that every corrupt idiot judge on the federal bench has a family member sucking the teat of millions of NGO money.
lying sacs
One illegal getting a ss check makes it true. Wanna bet a trillion on it being falsely claimed?
It is amazing the fake media has any credibility at all, after Biden’s debate dementia reveal. But there are still plenty of people out there who still buy their crap, I’ve talked to them.
With the headline NBC deceptively makes it sound as if they are trying to cut SS for everyone, however many times Trump has said that is not the case.
Cutting how? By taking out all the 120 plus year old recipients?
sell Social Security Administration cuts“
NBC/rats are determined to use “Cuts in social security” for their narrative any way they can.
I have an old friend on Facebook, and recently I had to get back on FB and notifications from him keep popping up and they are all rants, severe TDS, and the comments as bad or worse.
Was going to add a comment and decided it wasn’t worth it.
Agreed, but part of the fraud is using old active SS#s to get money into the pockets of their illegal minions. They certainly are not going to pay for their existence.
Some fraud is outright grift lol most of USAID funding, others are just to fund the overall agenda
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