Originally Posted by BlueScholar

Here's a possibility: Musk is lying, or he's flat out wrong. He has repeatedly thrown out "We don't know what this is or what it's for" as a lazy excuse to justify his job and to shut down follow up questions. That's exactly what he did when he audited the social security datavase and found 150 year olds in there, and children receiving payments. Of course his team, who lack accounting experience or any knowledge of how the government works, which also includes one self described racist and eugenecist, shouted from the rooftops about how this is clearly fraud, but they never bothered to ask "why". The answer, of course was the way the system handled people who were born prior to the database and the fact it would take millions to fix a glitch that was easily understood, easily worked around, and cost $0. But these genuises claim it's more efficient to spend the $9 million to fix the glitch. The children were getting payments, but that's because they are entitled to that money becuase their parent who qualified for SS died. Anyone who worked in the system could explain it, but of course Musk and DOGE weren't interested in getting answers, they wanted headlines. It's also why they have been caught claiming that contracts that have already been fully paid out have been "cancelled", and counting it as saved when all the money was spent, and even double or triple counting "savings".