"Obviously, we want to make sure that people who deserve to receive Social Security do receive it, and that they receive it quickly and accurately,"
"If your taxpayer dollars are not spent in a sensible and frugal manner, then that's not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on the things that matter to the people," Musk said.
"It's not Draconian or radical. I think it's really just saying let's look at each of the expenditures and say, is this actually in the best interest of the people, and if it is, it's approved, if it's not, we should think about it," he added.
What’s wrong with that?
How about this?
According to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 3,095 SBA loans issued during the 2020-2021 covid era went to businesses where the owner was recorded as being
older than 115 years old. The
oldest person living in the US currently is only 114. Overall, this amounted to $333M deployed. No additional details were shared on the loans. The
DOGE website mostly just embeds tweets made on X.
That shenanigans occurred during the PPP & EIDL covid era is nothing new.
As of FY 2024, for example, the SBA had already written off $70B in covid EIDL loans alone. What’s new with the above information is perhaps how cross-checking may have easily prevented some of the obvious fraud.
debanked.com
Now, this could be a case of outdated systems, or it’s fraud.
And, why aren’t we asking, if the US can send millions overseas for agenda driven bs, but our accounting systems here haven’t been updated since the 80s? That’s crazy.