DOGE Reveals Non-Citizens Received ‘Maximum’ Social Security Benefits
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gone from cutting government spending to shrinking the size of government overall. Now, the agency’s head, Elon Musk, is detailing what DOGE has uncovered in fraud, overspending, and gaps in the system.
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| 0:00.0 | Elon Musk, the head of Doge, is now detailing what the department has uncovered in fraud over spending and gaps in the systems of government. |
| 0:08.5 | And there's a lot to unpack here. |
| 0:10.8 | In other news, these statues and monuments that were removed across the United States over the past four years are going to be restored by Trump. |
| 0:19.4 | And the people who did this even retroactively |
| 0:22.3 | are now facing prosecution. |
| 0:24.6 | And meanwhile, the Trump administration |
| 0:26.6 | is gonna go hard against the cartels, |
| 0:28.8 | and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is announcing |
| 0:32.2 | that one cartel is now being hit with economic sanctions. |
| 0:36.4 | This is a major blow to their accomplices. I'm the |
| 0:39.7 | Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:50.3 | The Doge Department, the Department of Government Efficiency, has gone from just cutting government |
| 0:55.7 | spending to shrinking the size of government overall and now, while investigating what seems |
| 1:01.6 | to be alleged large-scale fraud. And now the agency head, Elon Musk, he's detailing all the |
| 1:07.4 | things they've been uncovering and all the gaps in the systems that allowed it. Now, some of the key findings on this were unveiled during an event to get out the vote in Wisconsin, |
| 1:15.6 | you know, for the Supreme Court election. |
| 1:17.6 | And in one segment, Elon Musk brought out Antonio Garcia, |
| 1:21.6 | who detailed some of the Doge Department's findings on non-U.S. citizens registering for Social Security. In fact, |
| 1:30.4 | about 4.8 million of them and detailed how they were using this to get maximum social welfare |
| 1:38.0 | benefits and even to vote. |
| 1:40.0 | We started at the top of the system. |
| 1:42.3 | We started at the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was. |
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