In a shocking but all-too-predictable example of just how broken the federal bureaucracy became under Democrat mismanagement, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered nearly half a billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims—filed by “people” who either aren’t born yet or are well over 100 years old.
Yes, you read that correctly.
At a Thursday cabinet meeting, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer presented findings to President Trump that reveal a jaw-dropping level of incompetence and abuse within America’s unemployment system. According to an initial DOGE review, since 2020, over 9,700 claims were filed by individuals with birthdates 15 years in the future, raking in $69 million in benefits. In one utterly absurd case, someone with a listed birth year of 2154—yes, more than a century from now—managed to walk away with $41,000 of taxpayer money.
It doesn’t stop there.
DOGE also found that 24,500 people over the highly improbable age of 115 claimed $59 million, and another 28,000 children between ages 1 and 5 (presumably pre-kindergarten benefit scammers?) claimed an additional $254 million. The grand total: hundreds of millions of your dollars funneled into the pockets of fake, dead, or not-yet-born individuals.
Elon Musk, tapped by President Trump to lead the newly formed DOGE agency, did not hold back. “Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!” he posted on X. “This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in.”
This is not just a glitch. It’s not just a typo. It’s what happens when bloated, unaccountable government programs are left unchecked—especially when run by the same Democrats who now pretend to care about fiscal responsibility.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), never one to shy away from calling out government waste, slammed the absurdity: “Of course toddlers and someone with a birthdate 129 years in the future are unemployed, but they definitely don’t qualify for unemployment benefits.”
The finger is now being pointed—rightfully—at Biden’s Labor Department and former acting Secretary Julie Su, who oversaw California’s unemployment system when it hemorrhaged an estimated $30–$40 billion to fraudsters during the COVID-era free-for-all.
President Trump’s decision to appoint Elon Musk to root out this kind of corruption is already paying dividends. Under Musk’s no-nonsense leadership, DOGE is restoring the most basic expectation Americans have of their government: don’t let our money be stolen by imaginary people.
Musk summed it up with typical clarity: “The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting ‘unemployment’ due to being dead. There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance.”
While Democrats bury their heads in the sand—or worse, defend the very systems enabling this theft—President Trump’s administration is proving once again that conservative leadership gets results.
The era of blind spending and bureaucratic absurdity is over. Under Trump and Musk, the swamp is finally getting drained—one fake claim at a time.
