The highest federal agency with a history of wasted spending could be the next Doge Target
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), took measures against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to a report by Semifoe, White did not deny it, when Franklin D. Fox News Digital contacted House.
And several Democrats – including Rep. Dan Goldman, DN.Y. Post on X – The move was quickly accused of cutting social security benefits for older people, with potential waste in agencies that do not involve cutting current benefits.
Fact, nonprofit institute, Previous reports The agency paid about $2 billion in fraudulent or inappropriate payments in 2022, and it calculated enough to “pay an average age of 89,947 retired workers to be $21,924 for older age in 2024.”
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Elon Musk's door efforts focus on social security. (Getty Image)
It turns out that through a policy called “administrative end” “SSA mistakenly surpasses beneficiaries for more than four years, it does not recoup past overpayments and intentionally continues to make future overpayments, except for fraud cases .”
According to one 2010 Report By the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
GAO estimates that about 1,500 people “may have received improperly” benefits as their wages exceed the maximum income threshold. The GAO investigation also found that the Obama administration sent more than 71,000 “stimulus checks” to the late people, including 63,481, whose deaths had been previously reported to the agency.
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Musk's team has cut USD 40 billion in spending budget. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“Social security will not be touched, it will only be strengthened,” President Donald Trump said in a press conference on Friday. “We have illegal immigrants about social security and we will find them.” Who is it and bring them out.”
Trump added: “We will strengthen our social security, etc. We won't touch it except to make it stronger. But we have people who shouldn't move on, and people we have to clear out , so far, most or many of them are illegal immigrants.”
“We estimate 2.65 million illegal immigrants have social security numbers,” said Alex Pfeiffer, the White House principal deputy director of communications, published a report on X in 2021 at the Center for Immigration Research.
Trump added that Duge will go through “everything” when it comes to federal waste and fraud.
“We remain focused on the integrity of the program and take our responsibility seriously to stop fraud, waste and abuse,” a SSA spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The Social Security Bureau was created by Franklin D. (Kurt “Cyberguy” Knutsson)
Doge has been taking headlines over the past week as Musk’s team has cut USD 40 billion in spending budget and abandoned the vast majority of its employees as the agency’s logo photos of Washington, D.C., is taking headquarters, Don circulated on social media.
Musk said he and Trump both “agree” that the agency should be “closed.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was appointed acting director of the independent agency on Monday, responded to the sentiment and told reporters: “USAID does not work.”
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“It has to be consistent with the national interests of the United States that are not global charities, and these are taxpayers' money. People are asking simple questions. What are they doing with that money?” Rubio continued. “We are spending taxpayers' money. We owe taxpayers' guarantees, which will enhance our national interests.”
Democrats held a rally outside the Treasury Department earlier this week to blow up the threat to democracy.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. “Elon Musk is a godless billionaire Nazi Nepali baby, no one was elected,” said a rally.
“Elon, this is the American people. This is not a garbage racing car that you can remove, separate and sell these debris.”
Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.