‘Don’t Buy Into The Lies’: Karoline Leavitt Sets ‘Record Straight’ On Musk, DOGE And Social Security Waste

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set the “record straight” Monday evening on Fox News to say that President Donald Trump has directed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk to “identify fraud” within the Social Security Department.

Democrats have pushed back against Musk and his DOGE team’s involvement with the Trump administration since the announcement of upending the U.S. Agency for International Development. However, a new wave of criticism targeted Musk after he posted a picture on X Sunday evening showing a chart in the Social Security database, ranging from ages zero to 369 years old.

“I’ve been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington D.C. swamp who are trying to fear monger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard earned tax dollars and their hard earned Social Security checks,” Leavitt said to host Sean Hannity. “So I want to set the record straight on your show tonight, Sean, and I’m very grateful for the opportunity to do so. President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration.”

“They haven’t dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments. So their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things,” Leavitt added.

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In July 2023, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General