Social Security: Why the Deficit and Who Doesn’t Pay but Receives Benefits
by Antonio Graceffo Jul. 2, 2026 5:00 pm
One reason for the DOGE audits and the Trump administration’s efforts to end birthright citizenship is to cut waste and remove illegal aliens and fraudulent recipients from Social Security and other government benefits.
The Democrats have pushed hard against immigration enforcement, and among their many claims for why illegals should be allowed to remain in the country is that they do not receive government benefits.
This is categorically false. See my several articles on the subject in The Gateway Pundit.
When DOGE sought to audit Social Security to cut waste and remove people who were fraudulently receiving benefits, liberals took to the streets in “Hands Off Social Security” protests. Democrat lawmakers and the mainstream media propagated the myth that there was no waste, that no one was receiving benefits illegally, and that this was a Republican plot to throw widows and disabled people into the streets.
The reality is that, whether you want to call it waste or not, Social Security money is being spent for purposes other than funding the retirement benefits of the workers who paid into the system, and illegals receive state and federal benefits, including Social Security, through several mechanisms.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/social-security-why-deficit-who-doesn%92t-pay-but-receives-benefits-440120/
