Remember all those Trump campaign stops where he said he wanted there to be accountability placed on Washington DC with taxpayer dollars? Ridding ourselves of the illegals that wrecked havoc (and still are!) on our legal system? Well DOGE was a promise made and he's keeping his promise. These are 2 of the main reasons why he was elected! I DGAF what/who's feelings he hurts from now on. DGAF. Boo frickety hoo. What's been uncovered is downright criminal and why the US is in debt to the tune it is now.
Social Security Head Quits After DOGE Data Standoff As Fraudulent 'Vampires' Exposed
Acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, resigned on Sunday after a standoff with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over access to sensitive government records.
Former acting commissioner of Social Security, Michelle King
The same day, Musk posted what he says could be the 'biggest fraud in US history' in which millions of 'people' over the age of 100 are collecting payments.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security š¤£š¤£ pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
ā Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
King - who worked at the agency for over 30 years, left her position this weekend after refusing to give DOGE staffers access to sensitive information, such as the fraudulent payments to 'vampires' - with at least one recipient being older than the United States itself.
Which of course is the exact reason career employees shouldn't be holding the keys to the castle with the new sheriff in town.
According to the Washington Post, "Administration officials have also been skeptical of career employees' efforts to guard federal data, maintaining that political appointees should also be able to access it, particularly if necessary to root out wasteful or erroneous spending."
In the wake of King's departure, President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek - a manager in charge of Social Security's anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner, while the Senate vets Trump nominee Frank Bisignano. Dudek had previously posted positive remarks on social media over DOGE's efforts to cut waste, fraud and abuse throughout the US government.
Yes, there are FAR more āeligibleā social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.
This might be the biggest fraud in history.
ā Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Trump picking Dudek to take over for King bypassed 'dozens of other senior executives who sat higher in the agency's leadership heirarchy, touching off alarm in and around the agency,' according to WaPo.
"At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits," said former Social Security commissioner under Biden, Martin O'Malley - a former Maryland governor.
"Itās a shame the chilling effect it has to disregard 120 senior executive service people," O'Malley continued. "To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency."
Yes jackass, that's the point.
On Monday evening, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had been fighting "fake news reporters" trying to "fearmonger" about Social Security payments.
DOGE's access to records across the federal government have prompted disputes with senior officials at various agencies. Perhaps most prominently, the highest-ranking civil servant at the US Treasury Department quit after similarly refusing to grant Musk's team access to the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which manages over $5 trillion in annual payments.
On Sunday, the Post reported that DOGE is looking to access a heavily guarded IRS system that contains detailed information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country. For some reason, Democrats seem to be the only ones freaking out about this.
And again, that's the point.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/social-security-head-quits-after-doge-data-standoff-fraudulent-vampires-exposed BYE BISH![whip]
RUN! People are going to want heads on pikes when DOGE is through with SS and the Treasury!
DrMaddVibe wrote:
FAKE NEWS... This has been explained both recently and in previous discussions in 2023 and before...
Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du MĆØtre.
These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
Thatās just one possible explanation for what DOGE allegedly found.
Musk could also have simply looked up the SSAās own website, which explains that since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.However, on Monday morning Musk doubled down, posting a screenshot of what he claims were figures from āthe Social Security databaseā to X, writing that āthe numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!ā
The figures suggested that over 10 millions people aged over 120 were collecting benefits.
āMaybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,ā Musk wrote.
The database Musk took the screenshot from listed almost 400 million people, which is more than five times the number of people receiving benefits in 2024, according to the SSAās own website. Itās also significantly more than the entire US population.
The fact that the Social Security system contains millions of entries from people who are dead is likely distinct from a potential COBOL-caused error, and also not news. A report written by the SSAās inspector general in 2023 found that 98 percent of those aged 100 or older in the Social Security databases are not in receipt of any benefits. The report added that the database would not be updated because it would cost too much money to do so.
