Bret Baier Asks Musk and DOGE if They Were Behind Social Security Site Crashes That ‘Freaked People Out’

Fox News host Bret Baier asked billionaire Elon Musk whether he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were responsible for a recent series of crashes on the Social Security website which “freaked people out.”

During an interview with Musk and his DOGE team on Thursday, Baier asked:

The Washington Post: “The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month because the servers were overloaded, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts.” Freaked people out. Is that going to change?

“Yes, we’re going to make sure that the website stays online,” answered Musk.

Baier pressed, “But is it a result of going in there or something you’re doing?”

“No,” replied Musk bluntly.

DOGE’s Steve Davis then elaborated, “No. The amount of issues in the Social Security system are enormous. As an example, there are over 15 million people that are over the age of 120, that are marked as alive in the Social Security system.”

“And that’s an accurate figure? 15 million?” asked Baier.

Davis confirmed, “Correct. This is something that has been identified as a problem, again, pre-existing problem since 2008, at least, from an IG report. So, there are some great people working at the Social Security Administration that found this, 2008, and nothing was done, and so 15 to 20 million Social Security numbers that were clearly fraudulent were floating around, that can be used only for bad intentions. There would be no way to use those for good intentions.”

He concluded, “And so one of the things the DOGE team is doing is carefully and very methodically looking at those and making sure that any fraudulent ones are eliminated.”

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