The Department of Government Efficiency is taking aim at agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration, as the administration argues in court that Elon Musk is not the administrator of the newly-formed entity despite public comments from Trump to the contrary.

Elon Musk falsely claimed there were tens of millions of people aged 100-159 still receiving Social Security benefits.

Leland Dudek, a mid-level career employee at the Social Security Administration, posted on LinkedIn that he was placed on administrative leave for cooperating with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and asked for help finding another job.

We did not find evidence that millions of implausibly old people receive Social Security payments. Recent Social Security Administration data shows that about 89,000 people ages 99 and older receive Social Security payments.

The IRS is fighting to keep Elon Musk and his merry men access to the sensitive personal data of American taxpayers. Meanwhile, the acting head of the Social Security Administration has stepped down in the face of further overreach by Musk.

Elon Musk shared a chart on X purportedly showing more than 398 million eligible numbers in the Social Security database. Online posts misconstrued the figures to wrongly claim they showed how many people are receiving benefits,

The only efficiency Elon Musk cares about is how efficiently he can take ... The hardworking civil servants at the Social Security Administration are extremely diligent in tracking the deaths of beneficiaries. Social Security spends millions of dollars ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has said there is widespread fraud taking place in the payment of "federal entitlements" like Social Security. Social Security benefits are paid to more than 70 million Americans on a monthly basis, and help form the bedrock of income for many retirees, survivors of deceased claimants and disabled people.

Elon Musk recently stirred debate by suggesting that millions of deceased Americans are still receiving Social Security benefits. However, experts in public policy and economics argue that Musk's claims are based on a misunderstanding of the data.