President Trump press secretary turns the tables on goose stepping Democrats who complain about DOGE.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/karoline-leavitt-trump-elon-musks-doge-team-doing-what-democrats-promised-for-decades

Karoline Leavitt: Trump, Elon Musk's DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised 'for decades'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listen to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk and our entire administration, who are saying the exact same things that Democrat politicians promised the American people they would do for decades. President Trump is just the first president in our lifetimes to actually do it. And now you see the Democrat Party and the mainstream media spiraling out of control about a very simple promise: rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from our federal bureaucracy. This is a promise President Trump campaigned on. He is now delivering on it.

DemoKKKrats have LOST the argument.

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ElwoodBlues · M

Actually, the Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes tables including the number of recipients in each age bracket

Thus, we know exactly how many Social Security checks went out in December to people aged 99+ -- 89,106.
https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1891656442920276222

According to the US Census, in 2020 we had 80,139 people aged 100+. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/census-briefs/c2020br-06.pdf

The fact that the 99+ bracket is more inclusive than the 100+ bracket accounts for the discrepancy.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues I am not a database guy but it seems according to plenty of SQL experts the "social security going to people 200 years old" nonsense comes from the Interns Elon has running around have no idea how to query an SQL database correctly to get actually useful datasets.

ElwoodBlues · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Ignorance of SQL may be part of it, but ignorance of the complexities of social security is a big part as well. 卐LON complained that the SSN database hadn't been de-duplicated. The fact is, there are shared SSNs out there for whatever reason. And it takes time and money to change an SSN, so what's the most cost effective thing to do?

And there are procedures not represented in the database that protect against fraud. For example, anyone who reaches age 114 gets their SS cut off. They have to prove they're alive to re-start the checks. And a certain number of uncashed checks gets you cut off too. I'm not an SQL or database person either, but you have to be well versed in the details of SSA practice before you can make sense of things.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues For sure. And duplicate SSN numbers can't just be fixed with keystrokes.

Here in Canada with Social Insurance Numbers. Very similar. Anyway, when it was rolled out in the early 60s they had not entirely nailed down who and when a number would be issues. Anyway, that confusion led to people like my father and my uncle both being issued a second number when they enlisted in the Air Force.

decades later some over zealous person tried to fix that with the delete key and declared my uncle dead on paper.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow My uncle found out when his boss told him they could not give him his paycheck because according to the feds he was dead.