Elon Musk clashed with a far-left senator in a series of posts made to X on March 12, 2025. The inciting incident was a clip from Fox News Business in which the tech CEO explained how entitlement spending is used to retain illegal immigrants. During his interview, Musk said that the $700 billion in wasteful federal spending is an elaborate vote-buying scheme.
Senator Mazie Hirono, a Hawaii Democrat, objected to Elon’s remarks. She said Musk was lying and that immigration isn’t a real problem. Musk had no time for her baseless allegations and shut her down with his own post. He proved that not only is social security used to subsidize immigration, but other government programs are as well.
In his interview, Musk said that entitlement spending is a cover for illegal immigration. He explained, “So the, I mean, the way support in entitlement spending, you know, which is all of the, which is most of the federal spending, is entitlements, so that that’s, that’s like the big one to eliminate, you know, that’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six steps, 700 billion a year.”
He continued to explain how democrats use this money to pay off illegals. He said, “That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters. Yes. So this is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation, because they’re losing, you know, if we turn off this gigantic Money Magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave and they will lose voters.”
Senator Mazie Hirono was incensed by these remarks. She attacked Musk, by ranting about immigration, “Elon Musk is spreading a lie that Dems use Social Security & Medicare to pay undocumented immigrants to come into the country. It’s just lie after lie with these people. Immigrants are NOT the problem. Greedy rich as*holes are.”
However, Musk fired back with his own response. He said, “Not just those programs! Democrats also use every other government money tool to attract and retain illegals, like unemployment insurance, disability insurance, tax rebates on nonexistent income, SBA loans, student loans, COVID payments, FEMA money for luxury hotels, etc, etc.”
Social media users were quick to chime in on Musk’s side. On reply read, “Wonder why Democrat politicians are so worried? They KNOW good and well they are the liars and that YES; they’ve enabled illegals to use Americans’ SSN numbers! Recall when Elon said there is no duplication check in the SSN database?! And that there are 20M using the SSN system fraudulently… Fox estimates $150B a year was stolen from us to foment the “alien invasion.'”
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Another said, “Nice deflection, Mazie. But here’s the truth: Illegal immigrants ARE draining Social Security and Medicare. Taxpayers foot the bill while millions pour in, and Democrats fight tooth and nail to keep the border open. If “greedy rich a*sholes” are the problem, why do Dems take billions from corporate elites and globalists? Stop lying.”
Watch the clip here:
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