President Trump Announces HUGE Social Security Purge — 275K Illegal Aliens & 12.4M Dead People REMOVED

President Trump, speaking from the Oval Office during a ceremony marking Social Security’s 90th anniversary, announced a sweeping administrative purge: approximately 275,000 individuals without legal status have been removed from Social Security records, he claimed, along with 12.4 million entries of people aged over 120, which were marked as deceased. He framed the move as a crackdown on “phony” enrollments that allegedly allowed ineligible individuals to receive benefits.

The Social Security Administration confirmed it had “updated the Social Security records of about 275,000 individuals no longer holding legal status”, though the agency did not specify whether they had been receiving benefits or simply removed from the system.Regarding the 12.4 million records, these were actually database cleanups removing extremely outdated entries—most likely cases with missing birthdate information—rather than evidence of fraudulent payouts.

Fact-checkers and experts caution that while cleaning up old or invalid records is important, there is no credible evidence that millions of living individuals were improperly claiming benefits. For instance, internal audits show only a small fraction of these incorrect entries resulted in wrongful payments.

Additionally, the removal of Social Security numbers for approximately 6,300 legally present immigrants—placing them on the “Death Master File”—has sparked serious concern. Critics argue this action effectively blocks access to essential services like banking, housing, and healthcare, raising alarms around civil rights and the misuse of administrative power.