DOGE's wild claims will never actually be audited.
Claim - 40% of phone calls are fraudulent.
Fact - 0.0018% fraudulent calls identified.
"DOGE tool built to track GOP's wild 40% Social Security fraud claim finds next to nothing
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is facing a new round of questioning after a failed fraud crackdown created even more chaos at the Social Security Administration — and found little to no fraud.
Already reeling from office closures, staff shortages and service cuts, the struggling agency is now reportedly being slowed down even further by an anti-fraud tool that barely caught any fraud while dramatically slowing down the system.
As senior correspondent Eric Katz reported Thursday for Government Executive: “DOGE said 40% of phone calls into Social Security centers were fraud, so it built a tool to track it.
Turns out the 40% was actually 0.0018% and the tool slowed down processing significantly.”
