Elon Musk berated for latest 'absurd' Social Security fraud claims

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By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
Published March 28, 2025 4:39 PM ET

Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, was berated anew Friday after insidiously tarring millions of Social Security recipients as "fraudsters"—a tactic critics called part of an orchestrated Republican scheme to destroy the vital earned benefits program.

Musk and seven DOGE staffers—all of them men—appeared on Fox News Thursday, where the world's richest person called the Trump administration's crusade to eviscerate the federal government under pretext of improving efficiency "the biggest revolution in the government since the original revolution" in 1776.

The DOGE staffers repeated unfounded claims that Social Security is riddled with fraud; that in some cases, 40% of calls to the Social Security Administration phone center are fraudulent; and that millions of people aged 120 and older are registered with SSA.

https://www.rawstory.com/musk-berated-for-absurd-social-security-fraud-lies/

Fraudster...................FU asshole and your fucking corrupt team..............I have receipts when I started paying..............when did you start paying and your flunkies................or do you not pay what is required by law...................well..................show us the receipts.........

[UpInArms]

1. Despite Musk's claims, the Trump administration's spending is on pace to surpass Biden's levels

https://archive.ph/VckMy

Elon Musk doubled down on his pledge to cut government spending by $1 trillion — an amount that would slash the federal budget deficit in half and, if implemented, put the U.S. much closer to stabilizing the growth of its debt burden relative to the size of the economy.

“Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars,” Musk told Fox News Thursday evening — adding that he hoped to reduce overall federal spending by 15% solely through “eliminating waste and fraud,” a goal he said “seems really quite achievable.”

He pointed to a number of examples of wasteful spending, including a survey that Musk claimed was done for the Interior Department at a cost of $830 million to collect Americans opinions’ of national parks. Musk said that the survey could have been done by another vendor for just $10,000.

The “Department of Government Efficiency,” headed by the Tesla CEO, says on its website that it has saved $130 billion so far, which amounts to about $2 billion in savings per day since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

…More where he is lying and hiding shit at link…

[pwb]

2. Being registered and receiving a check

are two different things. Proof of these claims of fraud would help. They say one thing and mean a convenient other.

[Klarkashton]

3. He has the audacity to drag a batch of shit ass nihilist dim wit gamers on stage to talk shit about

things they know nothing about.

Fuck that stupid ugly dope fiend asshole.

[yellow dahlia]

4. He and Lutnick (aka nutlick) both through out the "fraudster" accusation.

I bet it will start being a refrain on RWmedia - it is how they brainwash the great misinformed.