Stephen Miller’s Wife Demanded Government Agency Lie to Cover Up a Bogus Elon Musk Fraud Claim: NY Times

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Katie Miller — a top Trump administration aide who is married to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — ordered a government agency to lie in an effort to cover up a bogus claim by Elon Musk, according to a blockbuster New York Times report.

According to a piece Monday co-authored by Times reporters Alexandra Berzon, Nicholas Nehamas and Tara Siegel Bernard, employees at the Social Security Administration (SSA) were told to confirm Musk’s claim — made at a rally in March — that 40 percent of all calls to the agency’s service lines were scams.

“The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller reportedly told the acting Social Security Administrator Leland Dudek in an April 1 call. “Do not contradict the president.”

Musk, according to the report, became “fixated” on Social Security as part of his work overseeing DOGE in February. The Times reported Monday that “misread government spending data” — which led them to believe fraud was occurring on a seismic scale.

“Mr. Musk’s team mobilized dozens of Social Security employees to affirm their views about fraud and began a project to ensure dead people were properly classified so they weren’t mistakenly paid — even though DOGE officials acknowledged in an internal memo that payments were not being made in those cases,” the Times reporters wrote.

The Times spoke with “more than 70 current and former” Social Security Administration employees for their stunning expose. The agency has been gutted by DOGE cuts. As many as 12 percent of the SSA’s 57,000 staff members have either left or are soon expected to leave.

Katie Miller left the White House along with Musk in May — joining the Tesla boss to work on his business ventures. Both she and Musk did not respond to requests for comment from the Times.

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