by Frank Holmes, reporter
When candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the Obama-Biden White House left behind a series of landmines to destroy his administration — from Russiagate, to Deep State leakers, to rogue FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
It turns out former President Joe Biden also planted a ticking time bomb to blow up President Donald Trump’s second term — one the Trump administration has already started to defuse it.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found that, during the Biden administration, officials let millions of illegal aliens receive America’s most important U.S. government ID card…which and many of the illegals who signed up for the system went on to cast illegal votes in U.S. elections.
The number ran as high as 2.1 million just last year, according to Elon Musk and fellow DOGE member Antonio Gracias.
Elon Musk ripped the lid off the brewing scandal a few weeks ago with a new chart during a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Tesla CEO and DOGE leader plotted the number of illegal immigrants who received Social Security numbers during the Biden administration…which ran from fiscal year 2021 through FY2024, which ended last September 30.
The numbers are jaw-dropping.
“In 2021, you see 270,000 people” getting a government identification card—the “open sesame” of American life. “By 2024, that number jumps all the way to 2.1 million. These are non-citizens receiving Social Security numbers.”
As impossible as it is to believe, about one million illegals have already registered and been issued Social Security numbers during the 2025 fiscal year, which just began last October 1.
Of course, a Social Security number gives anyone holding the card the ability to collect Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, federal loans, unemployment insurance, and other taxpayer-funded giveaways.
“We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, for example. As we went through every benefit program, we discovered that this 5.5 million-person group was present in those programs,” said Gracias.
The dogged DOGE dream team says it has already removed 20 million dead people from the rolls—and no fewer than seven million people whose age is listed as more than 120 years old.
“We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby,” joked President Trump during his speech to the joint session of Congress in March, as he dropped the statistic. (“Bobby” meant Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
If you ever wondered why Social Security is in financial trouble, millions of illegals a year are the answer.
But the financial toll may actually be the least of their damage, Gracias pointed out.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Over 130,000 people according to the social security databases are aged over 160 years old. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby." 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/vU55wqO8pu
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 5, 2025
“We took a sample and looked at voter registration records. We found individuals from this population registered to vote—and, through sampling, we even confirmed that some had actually voted,” he said. “We have since referred them for prosecution to the Homeland Security Investigations Service.”
“We went there to find fraud and we found this by accident,” said Gracias.
Biden clearly did everything he could to shoe-horn in as many illegal immigrants—onto America’s welfare system and on each state’s voter rolls before the 2024 election…and to make sure they keep on voting for Democrats in the midterms to upend the second Trump administration.
But the Trump administration is a few steps ahead of the game.
🚨🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk’s team is providing evidence to HSI regarding connections between Social Security fraud and election fraud.
Under the Biden administration, illegal migrants:
•Received Social Security Numbers
•Were registered to vote
•Were enrolled in Medicaid
•Voted… pic.twitter.com/AYoDpCau1t— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 31, 2025
The administration announced last Thursday that the next step is to review the 92,000 Social Security numbers belonging to illegal immigrants who have a criminal record (aside from breaking immigration law, that is) or who are labeled suspected terrorists and erase them from the system. Already, the department has wiped out 6,300 ID cards that give criminal aliens free access to welfare and voting rights.
Every illegal found to have obtained the national identity card under questionable circumstances will have their disreputable Social Security number placed in the agency’s “master death list,” which it has renamed the “master ineligible file” — the list of SSNs used by people who have passed away or obtained unlawfully.
Then, if the federal government sees new use—like an illegal immigrant taking a job from a U.S. citizen—it can prosecute the offender for fraud to the greatest extent of the law.
DOGE has already cooperated with the Social Security Administration to find the identities of 800,000 illegal aliens who have registered SSNs…and the next step is their swift and certain deportation by the Department of Homeland Security.
“President Trump promised mass deportations, and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport,” said White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston. “He is delivering on his promise he made to the American people.”