In a headline-grabbing appearance on My View with Lara Trump, Elon Musk—who now heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—dropped a major bombshell. Musk claimed that over 100,000 federal employees may have been collecting unemployment benefits while still getting paid as government workers.
This stunning revelation came from a DOGE investigation, a department launched by one of President Trump’s early executive orders to crack down on fraud, waste, and corruption in the federal system. Since its creation, DOGE has published several eye-opening reports, but this one might be the most explosive yet.
“We’ve found thousands of people who are actively working in the federal government and also receiving unemployment checks,” Musk said in the May 2 interview. “It appears the number could exceed 100,000.”
The response online was swift and fiery. Conservative voices on social media were quick to demand action. “When do the arrests start?” asked Steve Ferguson, a popular pro-Trump influencer on X. Another user chimed in, “This is straight-up fraud! People need to be held accountable.”
Others were just as outraged. “How does something like this even happen?” one user posted. “Anyone involved should be fired—and if it’s criminal, then they should face jail time too. But the system itself clearly needs fixing.”
One particularly blunt comment read, “No consequences means corruption becomes the norm. We need arrests. Now.”
While some users took a more tongue-in-cheek tone—joking about investing in private prisons or sending the guilty to remote places like Alaska or even Greenland—the underlying message was clear: people want answers, and they want accountability.
As the story unfolds, many are calling for a full investigation to uncover how deep this goes, which departments were involved, and whether this was a coordinated scheme or a symptom of a broken system.