Rep. Mfume called for a "street fight" at an anti-DOGE rally on Monday. (Getty)
"A ‘street fight’ to stop cuts to wasteful spending?" GOP Sen. Mike Lee posted on X. "Those are fighting words. And they’re not honorable words."
"Remember when Trump pumped his fist and said fight after someone almost blew his brains out and the press claimed it was a call to violence?" Red State writer Bonchie posted on X. "Meanwhile…"
"You can almost hear the Democrat party’s 31% approval rating slide further down a hill with clips like this," Republican communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X. "Not only are Democrats openly promoting political violence, they’re promoting political violence over funding trans surgeries in South America."
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Elon Musk is leading the Department of Government Efficiency. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"Over the last 21 days, we have seen Elon Musk conducting illegal raids on federal agencies with his DOGE crew," the senator said. "This is a recipe for corruption by the DOGE boys."
Musk and other Republicans have argued that a significant amount of waste exists in the federal entitlement system and pushed back on the accusation that legitimate benefits will be taken away.
"At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR," Musk recently posted on X. "It’s not even close."
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"On no planet does @DOGE want to take away anyone’s Social Security check," Sen. Lee posted on X. "And on no planet is violence warranted by what @DOGE is actually trying to do—stop waste, fraud, and abuse in government."
Musk responded to Lee's post by saying, "Yeah, I can’t emphasize this enough! The goal of auditing the Social Security Administration is to stop the extreme levels of fraud taking place, so that it remains solvent and protects the social security checks of honest Americans!"
Fox News Digital previously reported that, according to Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, SSA disbursed roughly $2 billion in fraudulent or improper payments in 2022, which it calculated was enough "to pay 89,947 retired workers the average annual old-age benefit of $21,924 for 2023."
Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this report
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