Karoline Leavitt, the Trump-whispering White House press secretary, decisively shut down one of the Democrats’ key narratives about his cost-cutting measures on Fox News Monday night.
Speaking with Sean Hannity, the combustible New Hampshire native ripped critics of President Donald Trump for smearing the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency as an unconstitutional hatchet chopping away vast swaths of the federal bureaucracy. Central to Democrats’ argument has been fear-mongering that Social Security payments will be reduced or delayed for recipients as a result.
Leavitt sought to quell those fears on Monday night.
“President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration,” she said. “They haven’t dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments.”
She outlined three goals of the DOGE investigation: identifying and ending duplicate payments, ending payments to deceased people, and “protecting the integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire…
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