The head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk said that the scale of fraud in federal social programs in the US is disproportionate.
“I am now 100% sure that the scale of fraud in federal programs (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) is greater than the sum of all the individual cases of fraud you have ever heard of“, he wrote in H. Musk added that the scale of fraud “is not even close to comparable.“
Immediately after Republican Donald Trump took office on January 20, DOGE began a large-scale audit of US budget spending. Overall, Musk expects to reduce US government spending by $2 trillion. In fact, Musk's initiative led to the temporary suspension of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for further reorganization.