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Posted on 08/14/2025 12:50:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
On the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, President Donald J. Trump delivered a stirring proclamation in the Oval Office, promising to “Make Social Security Great Again.”
Trump celebrated the passage of his signature legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes a temporary senior tax deduction, effectively eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits for many recipients aged 65 and above from 2025 through 2028.
As part of the administration’s push to “root out fraud, waste, and abuse,” Trump touted removing 275,000 illegal aliens from the Social Security system and clearing 12.4 million names listed as being over 120 years old.
In his remarks and through a White House post, he claimed many of these phantom entries were getting benefits.
Trump:
“Last month, I signed one big, beautiful bill and allowed no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how’s that? Not bad, right? No tax on Social Security for our seniors.
To protect our benefits, we’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. These are people—many of them have already left the country—and yet we were sending them checks all the time.
And 275,000… that number is now even larger than that, Frank. It’s an unbelievable job, and what that’s doing is making the system strong. It’s making it strong.
Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. And we’re carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud. It’s the Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody’s ever seen.
We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database over 120 years of age. Just think of that. So we had 12.4 million names where they were over 120 years old. Is that right? That’s a hell of a statement.
So you have 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database that were over 120 years of age, meaning you were breaking records, because I’ve never heard of anybody at 125.
There were nearly 135,000 people listed who were over 160 years old, and in some cases getting payments. So somebody’s getting those payments, and we’re after that.”
The administration took credit for significant enhancements in SSA customer service: handling 70% more calls, reducing average hold times from 30 minutes to just six minutes, and driving a surge in automated self-service options, serving 90% of calls via technology-based solutions.
Field office wait times dropped 23%, and appointment usage quintupled.
More from the White House:
Social Security has transformed customer service.
The agency is handling 70% more calls than last year, while lowering the average speed of answer by 80%, from 30 minutes to just six minutes.
Improved use of technology has enabled 90% of calls to the national line to be served via automated self-service options or callbacks, further minimizing hold times.
Average customer wait times at field offices have declined by 23%, while five times as many visitors have scheduled appointments compared to last year.
All field offices are fully staffed, with employees returning to the office five days a week for the first time in years to better serve the American people. Social Security has made vast technology improvements.
Americans now have 24/7/365 access to their online accounts after reducing the longstanding scheduled downtime of 29 hours per week to zero — enabling over 280,000 more customers to access their online accounts in the first two weeks alone.
A new recording and transcription system to replace antiquated hardware is near full implementation — increasing accuracy and saving millions of dollars per year.
Innovative upgrades to phone technology have been deployed to 92% of field offices.
Social Security has driven down backlogs and delivered ahead of schedule.
There has been a 26% reduction in the backlog of initial disability claims from its all-time high last year, while the average processing time has been cut down by five days and the average wait time for a disability hearing has been cut by 60 days.
Over 3.1 million payments — totaling more than $17 billion — were sent to eligible beneficiaries under the Social Security Fairness Act five months ahead of schedule. Social Security has dramatically increased accountability.
The agency has identified more than $1 billion in cost avoidance and efficiencies this fiscal year.
The agency has addressed billions of dollars in improper payments.
After years of delay, Social Security is rolling out a new payroll information exchange that will transmit information directly from payroll providers — saving billions of dollars in payments over the next decade.
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Thank you Elon and your team!
That is, how you say...winning!
This is a good thing.
MSNBC: See? We told you Trump was taking away your Social Security. Where are the 120 year olds supposed to find jobs now with the Trump tariffs taking down the economy?
Do I have to, it makes me want to vomit knowing this is like .001% of government fraud, theft and mismanagement.
That’s gonna be awful hard on the Civil War veterans...
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...................
“””That is, how you say...winning!”””
This is clearly just to distract us from EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.
This is a great thing. But the bad part of this is that it shouldn’t be a great thing. It should be a routine thing.
So, how many of the 12.4 million 120 year old folks were still receiving checks/direct deposit for SS?
IIRC we have lost our last vet from the Great War recently.
I think the Civil War veterans will be fine. :)
“So, how many of the 12.4 million 120 year old folks were still receiving checks/direct deposit for SS?”
Too many and I’d bet they are big time Democrat party
supporters!
THIS is what I voted for.
Lots of winning.
Yes, and lots of credit to Elon Musk for uncovering so much.
This is clearly discriminatory to centarvigintians and must be stopped! Judge Boasberg? Paging hack Judge, John Boasberg. We need a worldwide injunction and we need it now. What will 120 year old’s do without their Social Security checks?
And voters
It seems that every day President Trump takes yet another common sense action to make the country stronger. We are witnessing a revolution of good over evil and the beneficiaries are the American people. God is blessing this country through Donald Trump.
No one really gives a shit about Epstein anymore.
He’s dead. Bubba Clinton, his biggest customer, is almost dead.
Trump isn’t involved and Melania is suing over fake accusations.
Go back to your shelter boob brain.
Democriminal gutter snipes are failing miserably and they’re the ones desperately trying to distract because their ratings are in the toilet.
Does this mean more for us?
Nice. So when does the Debt Clock start running backwards? End SNAP and push it to the states? Bring most troops overseas home?
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