I would suggest you do some more reading about the social security payments going to 150 year olds. That’s not true and is a result of the government using cobalt. Just because Trump/Elon declare something that doesn’t make it true. Like Ukraine starting the war with Russia.
he more I read he Politifact rationalization of why 150 year old-plus people are receiving Social Security payments, the more it sounds like another Politifact slanting of the facts to raionalize something that is obviously wrong. As Politifact continually does, it struggles to find a gobbledygook context that at least partially covers the Democrats as in some narrow conext correct in what heey do, while portraying Republicans as uninformed or liars. Because Politifact is in fac not "factual" but a Democrat spin site.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/17/are-150-year-old-americans-receiving-social-securi/This...
Social media commenters came up with one possible explanation for the 150-year age, and experts who have worked closely with the Social Security Administration told PolitiFact it was plausible.
Under an international standard called ISO 8601, a missing value for a date is coded as May 20, 1875, because that was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the "Convention du Mètre."
For that reason, under some coding systems, a missing value for a date will default to 1875 — which in the year 2025 produces a round figure of 150.
"Some people, particularly some immigrants, really don’t know their exact birthday, so there would have to be some alternative means of verification," said C. Eugene Steuerle, a fellow at the Urban Institute, a think tank, and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department during the Reagan administration.
Another possibility is that a beneficiary’s record in the system may have multiple fields for birth dates, one of which is missing data because it’s not needed for calculations.
"Some records may have missing codes, while others may have conflicting information on age or date of birth, so the staff would have created queries to determine which fields are actually used," J. Michael Collins, a University of Wisconsin professor of public affairs, said.
...raises more questions than it answers. None of it is fact, it is all presented as "possible" rationalization.
A nonfactual rationalization that some "internet people" (whoever THEY are) concocted , and that billions of dollars in Social Security payments goes out annually to people that don't even have legitimate birth-dates.
And...
Beyond the question of whether 150-year-olds are receiving payments, Social Security does sometimes send out payments improperly.
The sheer scope of the agency’s payments — over $1 trillion a year — means that even a tiny fraction of mistakes adds up quickly.
Between fiscal years 2015 and 2022, which includes Trump’s first presidency, the Social Security Administration sent almost $71.8 billion in improper payments, according to a July 2024 agency inspector general report. The inspector general’s office called improper payments "a longstanding challenge."
A November 2021 inspector general’s report found $298 million in payments after death to some 24,000 beneficiaries. (About $84 million was returned, the report said.)
The Social Security Advisory Board, a group of outside experts, has regularly issued bipartisan recommendations to improve the agency’s accuracy record for payments, such as shifting death data collection to the Treasury Department.
Collins said that incorrect birth dates or unnoticed deaths may not represent the biggest fraction of overpayments. Other reasons may be that the system has not caught up with life developments that prevent a former beneficiary from receiving payments, such as being incarcerated.
...that again acknowledges tens of billions in improper payments go out annually from Social Security Administration (that Elon Musk and his DOGE team shows is the tip of the iceberg), and at best offers a half-baked pseudo-factual rationalization for why tens of billions, and actual numbers likely
trillions, are fraudulently paid out.
"Tens of billions" in fraud are the official numbers, before DOGE ever looked at the books. How much higher is the ACTAUL fraud ?
It also doesn't even try to explain the hundreds of billions in fraudulent payments Elon Musk and his DOGE team have already found in USAID, FEMA, and other federal agencies.
And again, that's just a fraction of 1% of federal agencies they've investigated so far. All these agencies have been proven to be slush funds for the Democrat/Left, and they are in panic mode because Elon Musk and Trump are going to shut down their incredibly vast waste and corruption.
And are 100% right to do so.
And the American public, made aware of this waste/corruption, is outraged and overwhelmingly agrees with the cuts. As Democrats threaten "violence in the streets" and try to rationalize it as "extreme" of Trump to make these cuts. The American people are not buying that narrative.
