Illegal immigrants are claiming billions of dollars worth of Medicaid and other US benefits, according to data uncovered by the head of DOGE’s border team.
Antonio Gracias said around 1.3 million non-citizens are currently claiming Medicaid, at an estimated cost of around $6.5 billion.
The stark revelation came after Gracias and his team began probing the huge uptick in non-citizens who were assigned Social Security numbers last year.
The figure leapt from 400,000 in 2021, to more than two million in 2024. Among those are people who have entered the US legally on visas and green cards and who pay into the US tax system.
But a large proportion are undocumented migrants who are benefitting from ‘maximum pay’ and ‘minimum collection,’ Gracias said.
‘The defaults in the system, from Social Security to all benefit programs, have been set to maximum inclusion, maximum pay for these people, and minimum collection,’ he told the All-In podcast.
‘Already, we found 1.3 million of them on Medicaid as an example,’ he continued. ‘And we found people in this population registered to vote.’
According to Medicaid.gov, the average annual cost per Medicaid enrollee is between $4,000 and $7,000, meaning the cost for all non-citizen beneficiaries tops out at $6.5 billion.
As James T. Kirk famously said: “Let them die!”
So much waste, and the people in charge didn’t care. No wonder our taxes are so high.
Wonderful! I’m 0n Social Security and can’t even afford Medicare B. F@ckin’ thieves!!!
It’s getting tougher and tougher out there if you are American. I’m on social security too with a part time job just keep my head above water.
I’m on medicare and paying as damn fortune for a supplemental ins. because medicare doesn’t cover everything, like it should. I think I’m gonna have to drop it tho because I really can’t afford it. All the while the illegal bastards are getting it for free. Is this country great or what???????
Now Governor Wes Moore is thinking about a reparations bill but yet this state is broke how bout that one saw this on 47 news. Pos governor you Democrats voted in.
before trump was in office . the salisbury airport was getting plane loads upon plane loads of all kinds of pregnant illegals to get more anchor babies into the us.