Elon Musk’s DOGE has uncovered Social Security Administration files indicating that millions of migrants were recently added to the benefits program.
The DOGE leader showed a graph to a crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin, highlighting that over two million non-citizens received new social security numbers in FY2024.
The same display showed that, according to data from an internal Social Security Administration (SSA) database, over 4.8 million non-citizens have received new SSA numbers since FY2021.
Billionaire venture capitalist Antonio Gracias, a close friend of Musk standing on stage close to the Tesla CEO, talked the audience through the findings during an event hosted by the DOGE leader’s political group, America PAC.
‘This is not political,’ Gracias, who has been working with DOGE, said pointing at the chart as the audience clapped and cheered along. ‘I have been from D.C. to Social Security offices to the border to track this down.’
He shared that of the millions of non-citizens who were recently given Social Security numbers, many of them were set to receive ‘max’ benefits, which the DOGE worker said was the ‘default’ output under the previous administration.
‘The defaults in the system, from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people, and minimum collection,’ Gracias said of the recent migrant enrollees.
‘We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, as an example,’ he continued. ‘We found people here registered to vote in this population.’
‘We found some by sampling that actually did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the homeland security investigation service,’ Gracias said.
Federal laws outlaw non-citizens from receiving social security or Medicare. They also forbid non-citizens from voting in elections.
Meanwhile, the Social Security Administration notes on its site that non-citizens can receive benefits.
‘Lawfully present noncitizens of the United States who meet all eligibility requirements can qualify for Social Security benefits,’ the SSA website states. ‘This rule also applies to noncitizens authorized to work in the United States who got a Social Security number after December 2003.’
Still, clips of the explanation, and other portions of the Wisconsin event, quickly went viral on Musk’s social media app X as users cheered the fraud-finding effort.
‘It is absolutely infuriating,’ one user wrote in response to the findings. ‘Nothing to see here. Just 5x SSNs during the 2024 election year. Using our tax dollars.’
‘Thank God for DOGE,’ X CEO Linda Yaccarino commented on the findings.
‘Biden and team were bringing in millions of immigrants and putting them on benefits,’ another user wrote reacting to the SSA numbers. ‘I know Elon keeps saying it was for votes but that can’t be the only reason.’
Musk also skewered former President Joe Biden for enabling the jump in social security numbers.
‘People sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep with the switch,’ Musk said. ‘They weren’t asleep at the switch.’
‘It was a massive, large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately, to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep, blue, one party state from which there would be no escape,’ the 53-year-old entrepreneur shared.
Another user reacted on X: ‘Mind blowing fraud and corruption.’
Though some pushed back on the DOGE claims.
‘So we’re just believing every unvetted claim these guys make,’ another wrote.
The Sunday event was meant to galvanize Wisconsin voters to turn out the vote for a Republican candidate for the state’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday.
The world’s richest man has taken a special interest in the contest since it will certainly impact the state’s congressional maps, and therefore the slim GOP majority in the House of Representatives.
The billionaire Tesla CEO even handed out million dollar checks to event attendees who signed Musk’s latest political petition.