Elon Musk is taking questions from the media in the Oval Office today and revealed that DOGE is finding people on Social Security who are 150-years-old.
He said, “We see people in there who are 150 years old. Do you know anyone who’s 150? They should be in the Guinness Book of Records.”
Elon Musk on the waste found in Social Security
"We see people in there who are 150 years old. Do you know anyone who's 150? They should be in the Guinness Book of Records." pic.twitter.com/lQrHrdpnGS
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 11, 2025
Musk also goes into some of the other things they are finding, like people working in government getting rich off the government:
.@elonmusk: "We find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position… We're just curious as to… pic.twitter.com/IewBAi91u6
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 11, 2025
Trump also weighs in on some of the waste and abuse:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I see a lot of kickback here… because nobody could be so stupid to give out some of these contracts… I hope that the court system is going to allow us to do what we have to do. We got elected to, among other things, find all of this fraud and abuse." pic.twitter.com/Cc4LxicjE9
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 11, 2025
Musk adds that what DOGE really wants to do is take the government from the bureaucrats and return it to the people, which is what democracy is about:
ELON MUSK: "If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives… then we don't live in a democracy… It's incredibly important that we fix that…" pic.twitter.com/Xn5nE3IMPL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 11, 2025