Elon Musk shared a chart throughout a get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, which he claimed confirmed tens of millions of noncitizens obtained Social Safety numbers throughout former President Joe Biden’s tenure.
The occasion got here only a day-and-a-half earlier than polls opened in a contentious state judicial race.
The Sunday city corridor garnered loads of consideration Monday over Musk’s transfer at hand out $1 million checks to 2 Wisconsin voters who signed a petition calling for an finish to “activist judges,” after the state’s Supreme Courtroom declined to take up a problem arguing the sweepstakes was illegal.
After handing out the cash, Musk introduced good friend and DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias on stage to debate the work he has achieved with the federal authorities’s Social Safety system. Shortly after Gracias joined Musk, a big graphic that learn, “New Non-Citizen Social Security Numbers Issued,” was illuminated on the display behind them.
“We started at the top of the system, mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was,” Gracias stated, earlier than turning his consideration to the chart behind him. “But, this is what jumped out at us,” he continued. “When we saw these numbers, we were like, ‘What is this?’”
Gracias was referring to the full variety of noncitizens who obtained Social Safety numbers between FY 2021 and FY 2025. The chart confirmed a gradual year-over-year improve underneath Biden, reaching greater than 2 million in FY 2024, which ended on Sept. 30.
FY23 noticed roughly 1 million noncitizens issued Social Safety numbers, as did FY25, which started in October and can finish in September of this 12 months.
“This literally blew us away,” Gracias stated. “We went there to find fraud and we found this by accident.”
“This is a mind-blowing chart,” Musk added.
The eyebrow-raising numbers come amid Musk and DOGE’s ongoing probe into numerous federal applications and businesses, together with the Social Safety Administration (SSA).
Final week, DOGE stated it had eliminated roughly 7 million Social Safety accounts belonging to individuals listed as being over 120 years outdated.
DOGE has additionally discovered by way of its audits that the Social Safety database included 20 million lifeless individuals marked as alive, Musk stated on the Wisconsin city corridor Sunday.
Shortly after taking workplace, President Donald Trump signed an government order directing all public help and social companies within the US to cease offering entry to noncitizens, stating such companies are meant for US residents.
Consistent with the president’s directive, the Division of Housing and City Improvement launched a brand new initiative final week with the Division of Homeland Safety that seeks to bolster inter-agency communication between the 2 departments to make sure noncitizens should not benefiting from public housing applications.
