Elon Musk said that his Department of Government Efficiency audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old, Fox News reported. As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America.
The Telsa billionaire shared a table showing the distribution of Social Security payments for each age bracket. "According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!" Musk explained in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," he joked. The table showed 20 million people listed with ages above 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159.
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 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Besides the troubling data, Musk has also uncovered that the program is more of an unruly beast than a well-oiled machine. "The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE," Musk said in another post to X.
"No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild," he added.
Musk further charged that "there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."
Unfortunately, Democrats are losing their minds over the DOGE review of Social Security rather than what the audit uncovered. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)Â warned an "unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government" after Musk's task force found massive waste and abuse at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"Republicans in Congress must join us to take action to restore the rule of law and stop any potential lawbreaking by DOGE. DOGE is spreading across the federal government like a virus, and it’s American people who will pay the price when their benefits and payments are illegally taken away," Schumer breathlessly warned in a statement from his office.
The hysteria continued as Michelle King recently resigned as acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration over the weekend in response to the DOGE investigation, the Washington Post reported. According to three sources close to the matter, King was worried about the task force accessing government data.
Despite the optics, this move is positive for Musk's effort overall. President Donald Trump has appointed Leland Dudek, who is already experienced in the fraud office of Social Security and is supportive of DOGE's mission. Trump's nominee for the permanent position, Frank Bisignano, awaits Senate confirmation.
However, panic has already set in after Trump chose Dudek over other senior leaders in the agency. "At this rate, they will break it," Martin O’Malley, former President Joe Biden's Social Security commissioner, said.
"And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits," O'Malley ominously warned. "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," he later added.
It's telling that people from these agencies are panicked over any sort of scrutiny of their dealings. The American people are ready for real change to cut the fat, fraud, and waste from these agencies, and that's exactly what Musk has been empowered to do.
