Dem Senator ignores problem with Social Security
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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?”
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While I get Social Security, I am a long way off from being 120 years old, as are all recipients since there is no record of anyone reaching that age since biblical times.
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