An official from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said during an episode of the All In podcast that millions of migrants who entered the country illegally have found their way onto Medicaid rolls and many have been able to get Social Security cards.
Antonio Gracias explained on the podcast that migrants freed into the U.S. under Biden have been able to get work permits and Social Security cards, which in many cases allows them to get Medicaid and to vote.
A DOGE chart shows that during Biden's time in office, more than four million non-citizen Social Security cards were issued--more than two million of them were in fiscal year 2024.
“[Border Patrol] was giving people at times Notices to Appear [NTAs], and what that allows you to do is come in the country and then you’re scheduled a court date like six years out,” Gracias explained.
"So now you’re in the country with some quasi-legal status, you’re waiting for your court date, while you’re waiting for your court date — six years is the average by the way, it could be longer than that — you can fill out an asylum application, so without an interview, just an application … once that application is in, you can file another form, a 765 [form] to get work authorization, once you get that, you get a 766 which is the authorization and we automatically send you a Social Security card in the mail," he went on. "No interview, that is the majority of the growth you see in these numbers."
About a quarter of the migrants released into the U.S. were not even fingerprinted at the border, and there is no income verification when they apply for asylum and are sent a Social Security card.
This opens the door to massive entitlement fraud, voter fraud, and other types of fraud on a massive scale. Let's hope DOGE can do something about it before the entire system is useless.
“We mapped this through the benefit programs, we found every benefits program that is being accessed by these people, 1.3 million are on Medicaid right now, today. And by the way, it’s just ramping up, it’s just starting,” Gracias said.
"We looked at voter rolls and we found that thousands are registered to vote in friendly states. And we looked even further in those friendly states and found that many of those people had actually voted," he continued.
"It was shocking to us. If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it … it is shockingly bad," he said.
Gracias said the issue went beyond politics.
"This is not a political issue, this is about America," he said.
When a country effectively loses its borders, can it even be called a country anymore?
Three more people have died in California from hantavirus, the same rare but serious mouse-borne disease that killed Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, in New Mexico in February.
The deaths all occurred in the rural California town of Mammoth Lakes, and public health officials are worried about further illnesses and deaths from the disease.
Mono County Public Health called the deaths both "tragic" and "alarming."
“The occurrence of three cases in a short period has me worried,” Mono County Public Health Officer Dr. Tom Boo said.
When hantavirus is present, it occurs in the urine, droppings and saliva of infected mice, according to the CDC. In America, it infects deer mice.
The disease cannot be passed from person to person, it usually manifests after humans have contact with infected mouse secretions or they inhale vaporized secretions that have gotten into the air.
This often occurs when people clean up mouse-infested areas with a vacuum or a broom. Two of the California deaths happened just this way, officials have determined.
One victim vacuumed rodent droppings, while another had a known mouse infestation in their home.
Hantavirus can manifest in two ways: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which affects the lungs and breathing, and hantavirus fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), which causes kidney failure in some cases.
About 38% of those who contract HPS die from the disease (good thing it's so rare); while 1-15% of those with HFRS die from it.
Police and health officials are puzzled by the third person who died of hantavirus; there was no known infestation or contact with rodents in this case.
Before you start freaking out, hantavirus is rare. There are only 20 to 50 cases of it in the U.S. in a given year, but having this many deaths from it so early in the year is unusual.
There is no known connection between Arakawa's death in New Mexico and the ones in California.
Still, having so many cases so early in the year is unusual; most hantavirus cases occur in later spring and summer, officials said.
President Donald Trump's recent imposition of massive tariffs on dozens of foreign countries has been a huge win for many American industries, most notably the seafood harvesting industry.
Despite the impact that Trump's tariffs have had on the U.S. stock market, many industries are happy with the situation and are praising Trump for fighting for American workers after decades of "free trade" eroding American industries and destroying blue-collar jobs.
Leann Borsarge, the COO of Bosarge Boats, went on Fox News to praise Trump's tariffs saying, "The U.S. domestic shrimp industry has been on a downward trajectory for decades now as a direct result of the unfair trade in the overseas aquaculture industry for growing shrimp overseas and these tariffs threw us a lifeline that we needed to hopefully live to fight another day in our industry in this country."
For decades, American industries have been devastated, thanks to having to compete with cheaper foreign labor or, in some cases, outright slave labor.
Trump is the first President in modern American history to recognize that we are getting ripped off and has dropped the hammer hard. These new tariffs are leveling the playing field and allowing American companies to compete while paying living wages to American workers.
In a massive move on Wednesday, Trump put a baseline levy of 10 percent on imports from foreign countries and “individualized reciprocal higher” tariffs on certain countries that Trump wants to target as countries that have taken advantage of the U.S.
Over the past few decades, U.S. seafood harvesters have been eaten alive by foreign competitors employing cheaper labor and having to meet much less stringent environmental and conservation standards.
The shrimp industry in particular has been mauled with nearly 95% of shrimp consumed in the United States imported from foreign countries like India, Ecuador, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Argentina.
In just two years, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, the shrimp industry's value plummeted from $522 million in 2021 to $269 million in 2023.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance praised the Trump administration's actions in addressing this sharp decline, stating that subsidies and forced labor in foreign countries made it impossible for them to compete, leading to the industry's downfall.
A statement from the organization explained that the tariffs "are expected to slow imports and prevent Americans from becoming completely dependent on foreign shrimp producers while the administration addresses harmful trade policies and enforcement deficiencies."
Trump's tariffs follow up on his promises to protect the American worker and uphold American interests over the interests of our "allies" that have been taking advantage of an unequal trade partnership for decades.
Of course, these tariffs are terrible news for the ultrawealthy and massive corporations that exploit cheap foreign labor and lax environmental standards to create cheaper goods that are sold for higher profits to Americans.
Unequal trade relationships have devastated entire regions of the nation and destroyed our manufacturing industries. Trump wanted to fix that in his first term and is still committed to tackling the problem in his 2nd term.
Former President Barack Obama shocked Americans by admitting that his marriage with former First Lady Michelle Obama is in a tough spot amid rumors that the pair is getting divorced.
During a conversation with Hamilton College President Steven Tepper, Obama admitted that his marriage had seen better days. Obama confessed that he was in a "deep deficit" with his wife, in a nod to the toll that his extensive political career took on his personal life.
According to The Daily Beast, Obama told Tepper, "I was in a deep deficit with my wife. So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
Obama was President of the United States from 2008 to 2016, and even since leaving the White House, Obama has been leading the Democrat Party from behind the scenes.
Despite being less publically facing and with lighter duties since his days as president, Barack Obama's marriage has been the subject of intense speculation.
Rumors of the Obamas splitting began at the memorial of former President Jimmy Carter in December.
Barack Obama attended the memorial alongside many of the nation's most prominent figures, including President Donald Trump and former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.
While Trump, Bush, and Clinton all attended the memorial with their wives, Obama was noticeably on his own. Michelle Obama isn't a reclusive figure, so her absence from the event was immediately noticed by observers.
The rumors only strengthened when Michelle Obama also declined to attend President Trump's inauguration just over a month after Carter's memorial.
While Barack Obama attended Trump's inauguration, his wife was once again absent. This was the final nail in the coffin, launching the divorce rumors from a far-fetched conspiracy to the biggest story in Hollywood and American politics.
Of course, the Obamas' relationship has been heavily scrutinized over the years. Back in 2023, Barack Obama gave an interview saying, "Let me just say this: It sure helps to be out of the White House and to have a little more time with her," while speaking about the struggles of balancing presidential duties and family duties.
Michelle Obama has kept her cards close to her chest by choosing to address the rumors in a minimalist and dismissive manner in order to downplay the rumors without inflaming them.
In her podcast that she hosts with her brother, Michelle Obama talked at length about “negative energy” and misinformation impacting public figures. This could easily be interpreted as Michelle Obama taking a shot at those spreading rumors about her marriage with Barack Obama.
It's entirely possible that rumors of divorce are completely inaccurate, but it's also likely that something is going on behind the scenes. Michelle Obama's absence from two significant public events wasn't without reason.
With Obama's confession that things have gotten rough in the marriage, it is possible that there is a quiet divorce going on behind the scenes. However, Americans will simply have to wait and see what happens in the coming months.
The undersecretary for management at the State Department, Tibor Nagy, stepped down on Friday after less than three months on the job, but it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone who had the inside scoop on the situation.
Nagy served in the first Trump administration and came out of retirement to take his current position.
Officials said he was returning to retirement and that doing so had always been the plan.
"Ambassador Nagy was honored to come out of retirement to help stand-up the second Trump administration, and it was always his plan to perform the duties of the Under Secretary for Management until more State Department leaders were confirmed," a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
Nagy helped oversee DOGE's actions in cutting USAID and making other changes at the State Department.
"We have long needed to examine the fundamentals of how we conduct foreign policy," Nagy wrote in the email. He also said more changes were needed to transform the department into one more "suited for the 21st century."
"While these changes can be unsettling, please continue to be receptive and supportive of these efforts," he wrote to the workforce.
Assistant Secretary of Administration José Cunningham will succeed Nagy, the email said.
The department has been embattled because of the changes to how foreign policy is conducted with the elimination of USAID.
Critics of the changes warn that eliminating so much foreign aid so quickly could make the U.S. more isolated, but some reports said that many of the aid programs were based on DEI and other principles antithetical to the values of the countries receiving aid.
Around 83% of the aid previously administered through USAID was cut, and the rest was absorbed into the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been trying to cut $1 trillion from the U.S. annual budget in order to eliminate deficit spending and get a handle on the nation's $36 trillion in debt.
The White House reported this week that Elon Musk, who has been spearheading DOGE, can only serve in that capacity for 130 days because he is not an official government employee.
As an advisor, Musk has been hard at work looking for fraud and waste wherever it can be found so that taxpayers are not being taken to the cleaners for nothing.
More discoveries from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have uncovered more obscene fees being paid by taxpayer dollars.
According to a recent report by Fox News, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been in the habit of paying hundreds of thousands a month for minor website changes and maintenance.
This was before the new administration canceled the contract due to an internal staff takeover facilitated by DOGE.
The agency discovered the $380,000 per month bill while parsing through loads of data DOGE received from the VA, showing the charge for site maintenance.
"Good work by @DeptVetAffairs," DOGE said in a post on X on Wednesday.
"VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week."
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins defended the cuts being recommended by DOGE at the VA as part of the Trump administration's money saving efforts.
According to Collins, the changes will allow his department to serve veterans better, something that should be an undisputed goal for the agency.
Good work by @DeptVetAffairs
VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 2, 2025
DOGE has moved through federal departments at an astonishing pace, making recommendations to the president to cut funding to entities and projects that many Americans didn't know existed.
As of April 2, figures distributed by DOGE assert that the agency has saved Americans $140 billion in frivolous spending, which equates to $869.57 per taxpayer.
Musk has been the face of DOGE since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish the agency on Jan. 20, the day he took office.
The organization was given 18 months to complete the task of optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations, and cutting spending.
Critics of DOGE critics claim that the organization is dangerous because it has too much access to federal systems.
Musk's detractors say that DOGE shouldn't be permitted to be involved in the cancellation of federal contracts or make cuts within federal agencies.
As it stands, DOGE does not make cuts; rather, it makes recommendations to the president for changes to current budgets and systems.
Billionaire, tech mogul, and Trump administration Special Employee Elon Musk is still taking names in Washington, showing scammers what happens when they steal from the government.
In the most recent display of power from the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk announced that his office discovered a scammer who stole from hundreds of thousands of Americans, as Fox News reported.
According to the head of DOGE, the scammer, who stole from 400,000 Americans' Social Security funds, will be arrested sometime soon.
"I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow because there's someone who actually stole 400,000 Social Security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database," Musk said during his comments from Wisconsin on Monday evening.
This week, the state of Wisconsin is engaged in its hotly contested state Supreme Court election to decide if the state's highest court will become majority liberal or conservative.
A Wisconsin voter asked Musk if Attorney General Pam Bondi would investigate and prosecute Social Security fraud.
Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he is tasked with exposing government overspending and fraud.
Last month he uncovered a "massive amount of fraud" allegedly committed by scammers who were using fake Social Security numbers to avail themselves of taxpayer dollars.
"I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow, because there's someone who actually stole 400,000 Social Security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database," Musk said during a tele-town hall with Wisconsin voters Monday evening.
The individual in question was reportedly "selling Social Security numbers and all the identification information in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security," he continued.
"A particular avenue of fraud for like illegal immigrants and for voter fraud, because the main way that identification is established in the United States is via Social Security," he said.
"So, if you compromise a Social Security system, you can basically get people to get de facto registered to vote, even if they're not citizens, and to get a bunch of benefits."
Near the end of last month Musk and other DOGE team members spoke to reporters at Fox News to talk about their operations and what they've found parsing through federal spending.
"They steal people's Social Security, is what happens," Musk said during a Thursday interview on Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier."
"They call in, they claim to be a retiree, and they convince the Social Security person on the phone to change where the money is flowing. It actually goes to some fraudster. This is happening all day, every day. And then somebody doesn't receive their Social Security, it's because of all the fraud loopholes in the Social Security system."
More alleged Tren de Aragua prisoners were sent to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) Sunday night, but a court order preventing President Donald Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to do so was not violated in doing so.
A group of 17 suspected gang members was sent from Guantanamo Bay to the El Salvador supermax, and six other alleged gang members were also transferred.
Many of the detainees had already been convicted of rape or murder, while others were yet to go to trial.
Trump used Title 8 to send the prisoners out of the country, rather than using the Alien Enemies Act, which has been blocked by a federal judge for the time being.
"In order to keep the American people safe, @POTUS designated the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations," Rubio said on X. "These criminals will no longer terrorize our communities and citizens."
Keivis Jesus Arrecheder Vasquez, a Venezuelan national and an alleged leader of Tren de Aragua, was among the transferred prisoners, according to White House senior officials.
All of the prisoners were citizens of either El Salvador or Venezuela.
Trump took to Truth Social to thank El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele for "taking the criminals that were so stupidly allowed, by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, to enter our Country, and giving them such a wonderful place to live."
The prison was opened by Bukele in 2023 in an effort to crack down on street gangs there.
It can hold up to 40,000 prisoners, but so far under 300 have been sent there from the U.S.
The prisoners there never get to go outdoors and the Associated Press said there aren't enough bunks for all of them.
There have been allegations of human rights abuses there, and the AP reported that 261 men have died in the prison since it opened.
Still, Trump is sending a message about what will happen to illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes in America.
"Every day, America becomes safer, thanks to the leadership of President Trump," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to reporters. "If you’re an illegal terrorist or criminal – the Trump administration is coming for you."
An actress who once played a police officer on TV is now a suspect in a real-life case.
The one-time star of 1990s and early 2000s TV show "NYPD Blue" Kim Delaney was arrested on Saturday for charges of felony assault with a deadly weapon after a dispute with husband James Morgan turned physical.
Police were called to respond to a domestic disturbance at Delaney's residence on Saturday morning and arrested both partners after investigating. Morgan was charged with battery in the incident.
According to TMZ, paramedics also responded to check whether injuries had resulted, but both were medically cleared at the scene.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Delaney is still in custody, while Morgan posted $20,000 bail on Saturday.
Besides "NYPD Blue," Delaney also appeared in "CSI Miami," "Philly," "Army Wives," "The OC," and the soap opera, "All My Children."
For her portrayal of Detective Diane Russell in "NYPD Blue," she was awarded a 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
It isn't her first time on the other side of the thin blue line; she was arrested in 2002 in Malibu for drunk driving and spent time in rehab for alcohol abuse the next year.
In 2024, a motorcyclist sued Delaney for allegedly fleeing the scene of an accident in L.A.
Morgan and Delaney celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary in October.
At the time, Delaney captioned a photo of Morgan hugging her, “A beautiful 2nd wedding anniversary!!! 10/11. And now anniversary weekend! Great memories! I love you, hubby-your wife for life.”
Just two weeks ago, Delaney posted a cozy social media photo of the two cuddled up together with the caption: "Pure love."
While it's possible that this is the first time the couple's interactions have turned physical, that's not usually the case by the time law enforcement gets involved.
It wasn't clear whether Delaney was defending herself against Morgan or whether she was the aggressor. She is likely still detained because of her prior criminal history and the seriousness of the charge against her.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is being criticized for bringing his wife to two meetings with foreign military officials.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer Hegseth, was seen in photos during his March 6 meeting with his U.K. defense counterpart. This started a fury among left-wing media, which began complaining about Hegseth's wife attending the meeting.
Hegseth, as Defense Secretary, is allowed to invite whomever he wants to his meetings. It's typical for meeting attendees to be a "need to know" status, but that is a decision that is ultimately up to the Defense Secretary.
That hasn't stopped the mainstream media from attempting to generate yet another hoax of a story about security protocols.
Just last week, leftist outlet The Atlantic attempted to push a story that U.S. war plans were leaked in a Signal chat. Turns out the chat, involving Hegseth and other key Trump administration members, contained no detailed information, and The Atlantic was forced to correct the story.
The mainstream media has been gunning for Hegseth ever since President Donald Trump announced his nomination as Defense Secretary.
First, there was a false accusation of sexual assault that the mainstream media didn't bother to fact-check. After accusing Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017, it emerged that Hegseth was the real victim who had been assaulted.
When that story failed to stop Hegseth's confirmation, the mainstream leftist media began pushing unfounded stories that Hegseth was an abusive alcoholic who was a danger to his family. Now, the mainstream media is complaining about Hegseth's wife being at meetings with foreign dignitaries.
It didn't take long for former Obama official Chuck Hagel to complain about Jennifer Hegseth's presence at meetings by saying, "When you have meetings with ministers or high-level NATO officials, those meetings almost always include sensitive security conversations. If you are going to discuss top secret, national security issues, you have to be very selective. What’s the relevancy of the person you are inviting?"
Of course, there was no evidence that sensitive material was discussed, and there is nothing indicating that Hegseth was breaking security protocols by having his wife in attendance.
Like the other stories targeting Hegseth and other Trump officials, there is no substantive issue outside of wild speculation by leftist partisans and establishment figures.
The Trump administration is extremely popular with the American people thanks to aggressive foreign policy and thorough domestic policies.
This has forced a desperate mainstream media to grasp at straws to attack the Trump administration. From the Signal story to this latest story about Hegseth's wife, the desperation of the mainstream media is apparent.
This will only get worse in the coming months as the Trump administration continues to succeed, especially on contentious foreign policy issues.