The world’s richest man has shown his determination to use his unelected position within the Trump presidency to wage war on the working class in the United States. Elon Musk’s latest accusation of widespread fraud within the Social Security system in the US could represent yet another major offensive against workers, who nearly universally rely on the country’s largest social service for current and future retirement plans.

Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an invention of the Trump administration that has pursued broad cuts to federal departments and regulations, has pursued access to sensitive information of millions of people in the US, held by the Social Security Administration. Both Trump and Musk have said they suspect that the SSA is making fraudulent social security payments to tens of millions of dead people, claiming that people as old as 100, 200, or even 300 years old are receiving social security benefits. These claims have been refuted by the SSA, which has a rule in place that automatically stops payments for people over the age of 115.

Musk’s claims began at his press conference in the Oval Office last week, when he said he found “crazy things” within the Social Security system, including people who were “150 years old.” Musk repeated the claims on his platform X, writing in one post that “maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”

On Tuesday of this week, Trump himself repeated many of these...

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