The administration removed 275,000 illegal aliens from Social Security.
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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
The administration's own primary releases state that about 275,000 illegal aliens were removed from or kicked off Social Security rolls, matching the claim's wording and the post's faithful paraphrase.
What was said
… I can tell you this: So, it's amazing. We've removed the names of 160,000 dead people from the list of food stamp recipients. These are people that died. Some of them were quite old, actually, well over 100, many, many over 100. We kicked 275,000 illegal aliens off of Social Security, and Frank has been amazing in Social Security. JD, I think he's been fantastic whenever he does, and eliminated $125 billion in Obamacare subsidies, which is a totally corrupt form of healthcare for foreign migrants. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The White House's January 2026 release lists 'Removed 275,000 illegal aliens from Social Security rolls' as an accomplishment.[2]
Supports. A 2025 presidential statement in the Federal Register-style govinfo record says the administration had 'kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system,' with the number 'now even larger.'[3]
Context. Reuters (Oct 2026) reports the SSA corrected records for nearly 15% of active SSNs, adding death and citizenship data via DHS SAVE, which is consistent with an active removal effort but does not state the 275,000 figure.[1]
Context. GovExec (Aug 2025) reports the administration continued to tout 'faulty stats' on SSA fraud and that a Musk-driven death-flagging effort affected about 6,000 people, mostly likely legal immigrants; it does not directly refute the 275,000 count.[4]
Context. Several unrated sites (Conservatives Today, a letter to the editor, and others) repeat the 275,000 figure; these echo the administration and are not independent corroboration.[5][6][7][8][9]
Sources
9 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 6 not rated
- 1US Social Security Agency corrects nearly 15% of records in database cleanupreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2www.whitehouse.gov › articles › 2026/01/365-wins-inThe White Housewhitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3DCPD202500850govinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4On Social Security's 90th birthday, the Trump administration ...govexec.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Immigration - PolitiFactapi.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6548 Trump Administration Wins: A Record of Putting ...x.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7275,000 Off the Rolls: Benefits Belong to the People Who Paid Inconservativestoday.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Letter to the Editor: Trump's accomplishmentspineandlakes.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Trump reveals shocking Social Security data involving illegal immigrantsamericanmilitarynews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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