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CNN host surprised at former Social Security official laughing at fraud claims

Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley came up with the proposal “full of fraud” on “CNN News Central” on Tuesday.

O'Malley, who served as the Social Security Agency (SSA) commissioner under President Biden from 2023 to 2024, said she was working after acting SSA chief Michelle King clashed with Elon Musk with government efficiency. We discussed reports of resignation (Doge) access to data.

“Elon Musk claims that SSA is full of fraud, suggesting that profits will be paid to those who have died and millions of dollars will be wasted,” said CNN host Boris Sanchez. It states.

O'Malley began laughing at the accusation.

Former Social Security Director Martin O'Malley laughed at CNN host Boris Sanchez's fraud question. (CNN screenshot)

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“You're laughing, but that's a concern that many Americans have, isn't it?” Sanchez asked O'Malley as he continued laughing. “Is that a laughing matter?”

“Yes,” O'Malley was still laughing. “He doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not like people's zombie apocalypse. All you know is running around with social security checks coming out of their pockets. ”

He later admitted that “it's a big agency,” so there's an “outlier.”

“It's 72.5 million people. Sometimes people who are really hopeless try to hide the fact that their grandma has passed away, so they'll get some more checks,” O'Malley said.

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O'Malley served as the Commissioner of Social Security from 2023 to 2024. (Kurt “Cyberguy” Knutsson)

He added, “I added more often, especially when I stop receiving Medicare benefits because of checks that interrupt people's payments across certain ages. When someone leaves the country or something.”

O'Malley criticized Musk for claiming that he “never backs up.”

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“Ask Elon Musk and show us 12 people, 150 years old. He shows us 200 million people who are still receiving checks. He can't. Picking up the law and the personal identification of people. I don't know what they're looking at,” O'Malley said.

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Elon Musk's Doge claims that millions of people collecting checks from the Social Security database were listed more than 100 years ago. (Getty)

Musk has been listed in the Social Security database with over 20 million names listed in the Social Security database, including over 3.9 million people in the age range of 130-139 years, over 3.5 million people in the age range of 140-149 years, and over 1.3 million people in the age range. It claims to be the previous one. Range of 150-159. He didn't say how many people were still receiving benefits.

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