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turbinetree

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:30 PM Mar 2025

Elon Musk berated for latest 'absurd' Social Security fraud claims [View all]

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.........

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