As Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers continue torching Teslas across the USA, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just keep churning away. This week, the federal department of nerds revealed a massive fraud that’s been taking place in the Department of Labor.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal unemployment insurance have been paid out since 2020 to people who are obviously dead or fraudulent.
Some people who haven’t even been born yet were collecting unemployment insurance!
This fraud case is so bad that someone in the Department of Labor is likely going to go to prison for it. There’s no way that payments this fraudulent could have happened without inside help.
There may even be a criminal ring behind it that has been siphoning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars off for itself.
DOGE has conducted a preliminary survey of Unemployment Insurance claims that have been paid out since 2020. Keep in mind that this is just preliminary and they haven’t completed a deep dive into the program.
Also, keep in mind that this money was intended to help people who have lost their jobs—and someone has been stealing all our tax dollars out of that system.
DOGE found roughly 24,500 people who are supposedly over the age of 115 collecting Unemployment Insurance. The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) paid out $59 million in benefits to that group.
The oldest known human being on the planet is currently 114. Exactly what job were these 115-year-olds doing that they got laid off from?
The obvious answer is that they’re all dead or fictitious and someone was collecting those payments. Then again, Wisconsin had more than 70,000 people who were over the age of 124 who voted in the 2020 election, so anything’s possible!
The same department sent out $254 million in benefits between 2020 and last month… to more than 28,000 children between the ages of 1 and 5. Those poor babies! What kind of monster fires a 3-year-old?!?!
But wait, there’s more!
DOGE also found that Unemployment Insurance checks had gone out to more than 9,700 people who have birthdates more than 15 years in the future. Those payments amounted to another $69 million. One person who will be born in the year 2154 has already collected $41,000 in unemployment payments.
That’s $382 million in fraudulent payments sent out to scammers. There’s no possible way that this could be excused as a series of simple data input errors. Someone in the Department of Labor was either actively signing off on these fraudulent payments or at least turning a blind eye to obvious fraud. If these were simple errors, there would have been more than 62,000 of them committed by federal employees. So, which is it? Are they all stupid or are they crooks? (Or both?)
This doesn’t just represent taxpayer money going out the door in the form of fraudulent checks. The taxpayers also get jammed for more money to cover the losses, as well as the reduced benefits for legitimate claims. Those employees at the Department of Labor had a duty to safeguard our hard-earned tax dollars that were stolen from us by the federal government. Once again, DOGE has exposed a total failure to fulfill that duty.
If you don’t think that this could be willful and deliberate fraud by federal employees, then you obviously haven’t had to apply for Unemployment Insurance recently. There’s a ton of paperwork and you have to jump through a torrent of hoops before you can collect the first check. You basically get put through an elaborate background check. The system is designed like this to specifically weed out fraud.
Yet employees at the Department of Labor were somehow cutting checks to dead people, 2-year-olds, and people who haven’t even been born yet? To quote Joe Biden, who most of this fraud happened under, “Come on, man!”
The efforts of DOGE are already bearing tremendous fruit for the American taxpayers. On Thursday, the House passed the Senate’s budget resolution that President Trump had requested. It features more than $1 trillion in real and immediate spending cuts.
Before you go set a Tesla on fire, you should realize that meaningful tax cuts are on the way for the American people—and it’s all DOGE’s fault!
