MSNBC anchor Jose Diaz Balart, left, is shocked when he learns a disturbing truth about Social Security waste. ( screenshot).
MSNBC viewers are not used to hearing the cold truth about politics and government waste from the network. It turns out neither are some of MSNBC’s anchors.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Elon Musk’s DOGE team late Sunday night unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database. Over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
More stunning news has emerged from cable television’s most left-wing network.
During a Tuesday segment on “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” a reporter revealed that an inspector general audit last year showed that the Social Security Administration had made tens of billions of improper payments over the last eight years.
“There was an inspector general audit last year,” the reporter began before a screenshot of SSA waste appeared on the screen, “that showed over an eight-year period that the Social Security Administration made almost $72 billion in improper payments, a little less than 1% of payments in that period.”
The audit the reporter was referring to came from an August 2024 report detailing that these overpayments occurred from FYs 2015 through 2022. $23 billion still remains unrecovered.
Unsurprisingly, the reporter tried to play down the findings while also trying to debunk DOGE, noting that most of the improper payments were simply from SSA paying too much.
“Now, the report also says most of these improper payments were overpayments, not payments to deceased people or people who didn’t qualify to receive these payments, he added. “At the same time, Jose, this effort by DOGE is to go through this agency like every other and try to weed out waste and fraud.”
Hearing this damning information regarding SS waste and fraud left Diaz-Balart shocked.
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MSNBC: The Social Security Administration made ~$72 billion in improper payments over an eight-year period, according to an Inspector General audit.@jdbalart: “$72 billion — and that’s without a comprehensive search! I mean, that’s significant.” pic.twitter.com/9D621F29Zf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 18, 2025
“Yeah, and also $72 BILLION! And that’s without a comprehensive search,” he exclaimed. “That’s significant.”
One can only imagine how much more waste DOGE will find when they fully investigate the SSA. After all, Elon Musk has already uncovered $100 billion in improper payments from Medicare and Medicaid via a simple search on X.
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