Martha MacCallum Battles Democrat Senator Coons On Social Security Waste!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, April 3rd, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Martha McCallum battles Democratic Senator Coons about social security waste in a fiery clash on Fox News. Host Martha McCallum went head-to-head with Democratic Senator Chris Coons in a must-see segment that exposed the left's complete detachment from physical reality. And their blatant indifference towards the impending collapse of our social security system. The segment originally intended to address a damning new report uncovering widespread fraud and waste in the Social Security Administration quickly unraveled as Senator Coons did what Democrats do best, deflect, distract, and defend dysfunction. Let's listen. It's worth every moment. Were you shocked as I was when you heard some of those numbers, some of that information about how much fraud is happening in Social Security, Senator? So, Martha, not only do I not believe some of what was just shared there, but the Trump administration's acting administrator of Social Security has said that less than one-tenth of one percent of the payments put out by the Social Security administration are fraudulent or in error. Let's be clear about some of the things that were just played. There are people whose names are on the rolls as having been born 150 or 200 years ago. They're not receiving Social Security payments. So the state that there's all these people, Martha, I'm just repeating back to you what the Trump administration, acting Social Security administrator, has said about the percentage of fraud in Social Security. Part of why I'm alarmed about Elon Musk and Doge and they're getting into the systems and they're getting the access to the individual information of millions of Americans ...is that Elon Musk has made it clear he thinks Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is itself fraudulent, fake, criminal, or illegal. I don't think Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Well, let me ask you something. I think 70 million Americans depend on it for their principal... Right, but gee, that's too bad, because in 10 years... Let me ask you a question, Senator. Let me ask you a question. You've made a lot of points. Let me ask you a question. So, you sound like you're pretty okay with all the agencies and how they function. So, you say all those millions of people depend on Social Security, so you don't care about the ones that are going to never get it because it's going to be insolvent in 10 years. What have Democrats done? What did Joe Biden's administration do to find the waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security to try to shore up this important agency? What did they do? Can you tell me? Sure. So, first, Martha, you are presuming widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security. You haven't offered any credible evidence to support that. I don't believe what Doge says about virtually any federal agency. But I will believe what the GAO says, or the Inspector General, or the Administrator of Social Security. Because I've had senior folks from Doge lie to my face about other federal agencies where they claim they have found widespread waste, fraud, and abuse. Where previous audits did not find that waste, fraud, and abuse. And this administration, Martha, fired the Inspector General of USAID when he filed complaints about the waste of huge amounts of food left rotting on docks. Rather than dealing with that fraud, they fired it. I'm amazed. So you're saying that I'm assuming that there's waste, fraud, and abuse. And I think it's equally surprising that you are assuming that the government is functioning in an efficient way when we all know... That's not what I said. That's not what I said. Well, then what happened, Martha? Martha, there are inspector generals in every single agency that are there to find waste, fraud, and abuse. They're doing a fantastic, bang-up job. I mean, when you look at the number... And to start the administration by firing all of them? Does not suggest a deep interest in listening to these career nonpartisan No, you can't just put it in your ear and go, you know, blah, blah, blah. Like, it's not happening. We all know. That's not at all what I'm saying. The point is that if Elon Musk says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and this president has fired the relevant inspectors general, who are the people most capable, not a bunch of 10-year-old software engineers, with no previous government experience, because they're trained independent accountants. Did you watch the interview? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to ask you a question. That's my job. So there's an excellent panel on special report. These are not 25 year old, you know, whatever people have been calling them. They're very seasoned executives who have made a lot of money and run big businesses efficiently where they only use the number of people to get the job done that they needed. They gave up their livelihoods and they left their families and they came to Washington to try to give their expertise to some of these agencies So, okay, it would be great if, you know, if both sides of this, you know, because what I remember there being an active interest by Democrats in saying, you know what, we know that there's a lot of waste in our government. Now you're telling me there isn't. That's not at all what I said. I said in Social Security, the current Trump administration acting Social Security administrator has said publicly less than one tenth of one percent of the Social Security payments are being in profit are not being sent to people who are eligible. I agree with you that there is waste and fraud in different federal programs, and sign me up for working in a measured bipartisan... We all know that Coontz would steal the last nickel out of his grandma's wallet. God bless you and yours, folks. She did lose it, but with good reason. 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