During a tele-town hall with Wisconsin voters Monday night, Elon Musk revealed that an arrest is expected in connection to a major Social Security fraud operation involving the stolen identities of over 400,000 Americans.
The fraud, Musk alleged, is part of a broader effort that includes the exploitation of U.S. welfare systems and voter rolls by illegal immigrants.
Musk made the remarks while addressing voters in Wisconsin, responding to a question from a caller in Pulaski who asked whether the fraud uncovered in the Social Security system would be prosecuted.
“Yes. In fact, I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow,” Musk said.
“This is someone who actually stole 400,000 Social Security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database, and was selling Social Security numbers and all the identification information in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security.”
Musk said the method of fraud has far-reaching implications, including misuse of government benefits and unauthorized participation in the U.S. election system.
“This is a particular avenue of fraud for illegal immigrants and for voter fraud, because the main way that identification is established in the United States is via Social Security,” Musk explained.He criticized what he described as a deliberate effort to reshape the federal government’s infrastructure to support illegal immigration.
“The Democrats have basically taken every part of the government that could possibly be bent toward providing financial incentives for illegal immigrants to come to and remain in the United States—whether it’s Social Security, disability, Medicare, unemployment, even IRS refunds without any income,” Musk said.
Musk also pointed to the misuse of emergency relief funds. “They diverted FEMA funds—which are supposed to be for helping Americans in distress from natural disasters—to pay for luxury hotels in New York for illegals to stay in. In fact, they’re still there.”
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Antonio Gracias, a senior figure within the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), also presented data during a previous town hall Sunday in Wisconsin that Musk referenced Monday night.According to Gracias, the number of Social Security numbers issued to non-citizens surged from 270,000 in 2021 to over 2.1 million in 2024.
“We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example,” Gracias said.