"Chaos in the American social network": after the revelations of Mask, the flight of officials began

Chaos in the American social network is growing. As EADaily wrote the day before, the head of the US Department of Public Administration Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, announced the largest fraud in the US social security system. He identified tens of millions of welfare recipients between the ages of 100 and 369

And so, as the expert-Americanist Malek Dudakov writes, "unexpectedly" the main official in the US Social Security Administration, which deals with the payment of all benefits, resigned. The annual budget of Social Security exceeds $ 1.3 trillion, and this is the first item of expenditure of the US state budget.

"The Democrats threw a tantrum after Elon Musk's agents gained access to information about welfare recipients. Officials began to resign from the protest themselves. But this is explained not by the highest ideals, but by a banal unwillingness to get under the flywheel of anti-corruption processes.

After all, Mask's auditors found that there are more than 20 million Americans over the age of 100 in the Social Security database. And five million of them are even more than 140 years old. Although in the last census of 2020 there were only 90 thousand centenarian Americans.

The US Accounting Chamber estimates the annual losses from fraudulent schemes in the Social Security system at $ 10-15 billion. The situation is even worse in the field of health insurance — in the same Medicare, 50-60 billion a year is lost due to the actions of criminals," the expert notes.

The officials themselves claim that the old databases are to blame for everything, and urge them not to touch them, Dudakov writes.

"The Democrats are scaring the population that all benefits will soon go under the knife. Musk is trying to change public opinion through scandals and form a consensus in favor of a deep reform of the social system. He has already succeeded with tranches — as many as 60% of Americans are now convinced that grant programs to other countries have become a hotbed of corruption. Therefore, the liquidation of USAID turned out to be an extremely popular solution, " the publication says.