Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has indicated multiple times that the amount of waste, fraud and abuse he has discovered so far is much greater than anyone ever realized.
Saturday afternoon, Musk shed light on just one tiny piece of the fraud. In a social media post, he said he has been told that there are currently over $100 BILLION per year of entitlement payments to individuals with no social security number or even a temporary ID number.
Musk wrote:
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
– All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!
– The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
Matt Van Swol, a former nuclear scientist for the Department of Energy, asked, “How is it possible they all knew there was $50 billion in fraud and they didn’t DO ANYTHING????”
Musk replied, “Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management.
“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain minimization. People we receive money don’t complain, but people who don’t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue.”
Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management.
Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain minimization. People we receive…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
Later Saturday night, Musk added, “Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!! Your tax dollars are being stolen.”
“The reason the radical Dems don’t want an audit of social security fraud is because they’re the ones getting it …” he wrote.
The reason the radical Dems don’t want an audit of social security fraud is because they’re the ones getting it … https://t.co/zLDCxNRj6J
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
Lawyer Rogan O’Handley wrote:
Did you catch this part? Elon said, “I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.”
Over $100 BILLION is being sent every year to people in America with no Social Security number. This may be the biggest money laundering scandal since Ukraine, ActBlue, and all the other globalist scams. This is why Democrats are freaking out – their DC gravy train was just exposed.
Did you catch this part?
Elon said “I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.”
Over $100 BILLION is being sent every year to people in America… https://t.co/M6TtK10cjw
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 8, 2025
“The magnitude of the fraud in government payments (your tax dollars being spent) is MUCH higher than you think!” Musk wrote in another post.
The magnitude of the fraud in government payments (your tax dollars being spent) is MUCH higher than you think! https://t.co/umnT8Zm4Mb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
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