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A whistleblower revealed that Trump's DOGE efficiency team proposed declaring 2.7 million living Americans dead in an attempt to reduce government spending and slash Social Security.
A whistleblower revealed that Elon Musk's DOGE efficiency team proposed a scheme to remove 2.7 million living Americans from government records by marking them as deceased. The goal was to trigger automatic benefit terminations and slash spending across Social Security, Medicare, and other programs—essentially cutting people off from their own benefits without due process or their knowledge. The proposal was floated as a way to hit ambitious budget reduction targets without bothering to verify whether the people were actually dead.
This wasn't a technical error or a drafting mistake. It was a deliberate proposal to use false death records as a mechanism for gutting benefits en masse. It's a shortcut that would have harmed millions of people who depend on these programs. Even setting aside the administrative chaos of correcting 2.7 million false death records, the proposal reveals how the efficiency push is willing to treat vulnerable populations as acceptable losses in pursuit of budget cuts. The fact that it got far enough to be discussed internally suggests a pretty loose ethical framework around what counts as acceptable collateral damage.
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