On Tuesday, the White House released a statement reaffirming President Donald Trump’s commitment to protecting welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare, debunking left-wing narratives claiming that the president wants to slash such programs.
As The Hill reports, mainstream media outlets once again began making unsubstantiated claims regarding President Trump’s stance on welfare programs after Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested cuts in entitlement spending.
In an interview on Fox Business, Musk told host Larry Kudlow that “the waste and fraud in entitlement spending…is most of the federal spending,” and thus is “the big one to eliminate.” Musk claimed that cuts in entitlement spending could save as much as $500 billion for the government every year.
But in the subsequent press release, the White House confirmed that “the Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits,” reminding the media that “President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).”
While President Trump has repeatedly stated that he does not want to eliminate programs like Social Security and Medicare, he has also vowed to root out corruption and abuse in those agencies. In his address to a joint session of Congress earlier in March, the president listed the numerous absurd examples of the Social Security Administration (SSA) giving payments to individuals who could not possibly still be alive, including those well over the age of 115.
Despite Democrats’ insistence that such fraud does not exist at the SSA, a report from the SSA’s own Office of the Inspector General (OIG) back in August of 2025 confirmed that at least $72 billion had been improperly paid in Social Security benefits.
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