The team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.

The DOGE edgelord has views on popular entitlement programs that no politician could embrace without fear of extinction.

Musk, the tech billionaire advising Trump, suggested that $500 billion to $700 billion in waste needed to be cut.

The head of DOGE told Fox Business that $500 billion to $700 billion in waste needed be cut from federal benefit programs.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has sent three individuals with experience in private equity and finance to the Social Security Administration, highlighting the focus that President Donald Trump is putting on rooting out waste and fraud in the nation’s social insurance programs.

Officials on Tuesday reiterated allegations of "waste and fraud" in entitlement programs as the administration said that no cuts will be made to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.

The world’s richest man claims, without evidence, that there’s $700 billion in “waste and fraud” he can cut from America’s core safety net programs

The popular entitlement programs came with a warning label from Republican senators not to slash benefits as Democrats look to make the episode a wedge matter.