{"id":188383,"date":"2025-02-17T10:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188383"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:07:01","slug":"doge-finds-394-million-active-social-security-numbers-334-9-total-us-population-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188383","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Finds 394 Million Active Social Security Numbers!  334.9 Total US Population in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;From Grok&#8230;&#8221;Elon Musk has raised concerns about anomalies in the U.S. Social Security database, pointing out an unusual number of individuals listed as over 140 years old still receiving benefits. This discrepancy has sparked discussions on potential fraud or data errors within the system. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is investigating these irregularities, amidst Musk&#8217;s humorously speculative comments about the existence of &#8216;vampires&#8217; collecting benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"854\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk.jpg 376w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk-132x300.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;From Grok&#8230;&#8221;Elon Musk has raised concerns about anomalies in the U.S. Social Security database, pointing out an unusual number of individuals listed as over 140 years old still receiving benefits. This discrepancy has sparked discussions on potential fraud or data errors within the system. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is investigating these irregularities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188385,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188383\/revisions\/188385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}