Congress-members can be known for being delusional. This was next level idiotic, though.
Because a U.S. Senator just went on Fox News and left looking like a complete moron.
Senator Chris Coons Is Clueless About Social Security’s Dirty Little Secrets
Delaware’s Democratic Senator Chris Coons got a reality check from Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday—and boy, did he flub it. While the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been digging into the Social Security system and uncovering a cesspool of waste and fraud, Coons seems content to stick his head in the sand, dismissing the mess as if it’s all just a bad dream. MacCallum, armed with the latest findings, tried to shake some sense into him during her show, The Story With Martha MacCallum, but Coons doubled down on his blissful ignorance.
DOGE, tasked with sniffing out inefficiency across government programs, dropped a bombshell on social media recently. Over the past four weeks, they’ve been scrubbing Social Security’s records and have already flagged 9.9 million account holders aged 120 or older as deceased. That’s right—millions of “supercentenarians” are somehow still lingering on the books. They expect to mark another 2 million as gone in the coming weeks. These aren’t just clerical errors; they’re tied to fraudulent payments bleeding the system dry. MacCallum, clearly stunned by the scale of it, pressed Coons for his take.
“Were you as shocked as I was when you heard some of those numbers? Some of the information about how much fraud is happening in Social Security?” she asked, practically begging him to wake up.
Coons, however, brushed it off like it was nothing. “Not only do I not believe some of what was just shared there, but the Trump administration’s acting administrator of Social Security has said that less than one-tenth of 1% of the payments put out by the Social Security administration are fraudulent or in error,” he said, clinging to a rosy statistic like a life raft. “Let’s be clear about some of the things that were just played. There are people whose names are on the rolls as having been born 150 or 200 years ago. They are not receiving Social Security payments.”
Really, Senator? DOGE’s digging into the data says otherwise, and their access to millions of individual records is painting a picture Coons refuses to look at. Instead, he pivoted to a bizarre attack on Elon Musk, who’s been vocal about Social Security’s flaws. “[Elon Musk and DOGE] are getting into the systems, and they are getting the access to the individual information of millions of Americans. Elon Musk has made it clear he thinks Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is itself fraudulent, fake, criminal or illegal. I don’t think Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. I think 70 million Americans depend on it for their principal source of income.”
Nice deflection, but MacCallum wasn’t letting him off that easy. She zeroed in on the ticking time bomb Social Security’s facing. “You say all those millions of people [who depend on Social Security]. You don’t care about the ones that are going to never get it because it’s going to be insolvent in 10 years,” she fired back. “What have Democrats done? What did Joe Biden’s administration do to find the waste, fraud and abuse in Social Security to try to shore up this important agency?”
Coons’ response? A masterclass in dodging the question. He trashed DOGE’s credibility instead. “I will believe what the GAO says or the inspector general or the administrator of Social Security. Because I’ve had senior folks from DOGE lie to my face about other federal agencies where they claim they have found widespread waste, fraud and abuse where previous audits did not find that waste, fraud and abuse,” he said, as if dismissing DOGE’s work makes the problem disappear.
MacCallum, visibly fed up, called out the hypocrisy. “I remember there being an active interest by Democrats in saying we know that there is a lot of waste in our government, and now you are telling me there isn’t,” she said, her skepticism dripping through the screen.
Coons’ tone-deafness didn’t stop there. Just a day earlier, he claimed Republicans were out to slash Social Security benefits, even though a fact sheet from Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle notes that federal law and Senate rules block such cuts during budget reconciliation. It’s a convenient scare tactic, but it doesn’t change the fact that Coons and his ilk seem oblivious to the rot festering in the system they’re so eager to defend.
Trump’s DOGE Unleashes Epic Takedown of Social Security Fraud—Billions Saved
A volunteer from the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hailed President Donald Trump as the mastermind behind the agency’s blockbuster success in rooting out jaw-dropping fraud within the Social Security system. Led by the fearless Elon Musk, DOGE is proving to be a game-changer, and it’s all thanks to Trump’s gutsy leadership.
Speaking on Fox & Friends Wednesday, DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias didn’t hold back in giving credit where it’s due. “None of this would have happened without President Trump,” he told host Steve Doocy. “President Trump had the courage to allow us to go across databases. He signed an executive order. It’s never been done before, where agencies could talk to each other and databases could talk with each other.” That single move unleashed a tidal wave of accountability, letting DOGE connect the dots and expose fraud on a scale that’s nothing short of mind-blowing.
Gracias explained how Trump’s executive order smashed through bureaucratic walls, enabling DOGE to link data across the board. “That allowed us to connect all this data, to find these people across the system, across the benefit system, all the way to the voting records. It really took a lot of courage,” he said. And the results? A full-on assault on waste and abuse that’s saving taxpayers billions while exposing some ugly truths.
Over the weekend, Musk and Gracias dropped a bombshell at a get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin, revealing that millions of noncitizens snagged Social Security numbers under former President Joe Biden’s watch. They unveiled a chart showing a relentless climb, with over 2 million noncitizens handed numbers in Fiscal Year 2024 alone, ending September 30. FY23 and FY25—still underway—each saw about 1 million more. “We found that there were just about five-plus million of them that came to the country as illegals, were given various forms of parole or allowing [in] the country, and they got through an automatic system, Social Security numbers, so they could get into our benefit systems,” Gracias said.
But it didn’t stop there. DOGE dug deeper, tracking these individuals through the system. “And we tracked that through and found that they were on benefit programs,” Gracias noted. “And just because we were curious, we then looked to see if they were on the voter rolls, and we found in a handful of cooperative states that there were thousands of them on the voter rolls and that many of them had voted.” That’s right—noncitizens not only infiltrated welfare programs but also meddled in America’s elections, all thanks to lax oversight before Trump and DOGE stepped in.
The damage? DOGE confirmed that 1.3 million people with fraudulent Social Security numbers were even raking in Medicare benefits. When Doocy pressed Gracias on how much cash DOGE has clawed back for taxpayers just on Social Security fraud, the answer was staggering. “It’s in the billions,” Gracias said. “You saw the fraud on the phone lines itself. That was about $1.5 billion, and I would guess with Social Security already, we’re north of $10 billion.” That’s billions back in the pockets of hardworking Americans, courtesy of Trump’s vision and DOGE’s relentless execution.
And the cleanup doesn’t end there. Last week, DOGE axed roughly 7 million Social Security accounts tied to people supposedly over 120 years old—accounts that were draining resources for no good reason. Then, at the Wisconsin town hall, Musk dropped another bombshell: audits uncovered 20 million dead people still listed as alive in the Social Security database. That’s 20 million ghosts haunting the system, and DOGE is exorcising them one by one.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
