“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk stated via X on February 16. “Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”

Created by Deroy Murdock; Source: Elon Musk/DOGE

“Yes, there are far more ‘eligible’ Social Security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history.” Indeed, the Social Security numbers that Musk found, as reflected in the nearby chart, total 398,416,213. But the Census Bureau reported America’s population on Tuesday: 341,427,401. So, there are 56,988,812 more Social Security numbers than there are Americans and permanent residents in the U.S. This 16.7 percent overage generously assumes that even infants and toddlers have Social Security numbers. …