White House damage control after Musk comments on cutting $500-700 billion in entitlement spending “waste and fraud”

Trump’s billionaire DOGE chief claims, without evidence, there’s $700 billion in “waste and fraud” he can cut from America’s core safety net programs.

The head of DOGE told Fox Business that $500 billion to $700 billion in waste needed be cut from federal benefit programs.

The billionaire head of DOGE also baselessly suggested immigrants were being lured to the U.S. by these programs.

The White House is trying to assure Americans that President Trump will not make cuts to Social Security and Medicare after adviser Elon Musk went after entitlement spending.{beacon} Health Care

In an interview with Fox News, Elon Musk called out the massive fraud in Social Security but termed the spending as 'entitlements' rankling Democrats as Americans questioned why the richest man was coming after the Social Security payments.

In an interview with Larry Kudlow, Elon Musk claimed that fraud in Social Security and other major programs was “the big one to eliminate.”

This would seem to uphold the claims made by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk that the entire system is riddled with “waste and fraud,” right? Well, not so much. On investigation they found that of these people,

Elon Musk on Monday highlighted the cost of federal spending on entitlement programs, the latest sign of the tech billionaire and presidential adviser’s focus to downsize the federal government amid fears of cuts to Social Security,