Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Head, Elon Musk, made a massive revelation while speaking to Lara Trump on her Fox News program, My View. During the segment, Musk explained how over 100,000 federal workers were taking unemployment while still collecting paychecks from the government.
For context, DOGE was established during one of Trump’s first executive orders and charged with fighting fraud, waste, and graft in the federal government. Since the department started work, it has had a number of bombshell reports that have electrified conservatives.
Such was shown when Elon Musk appeared on Fox alongside Lara Trump on May 2, 2025. He explained, “We’ve actually found this a lot of people who are federal government employees, they’re active employees, who nonetheless applied for and have received unemployment insurance while they’re federal employees. Yes, wow, and this appears to be at least 100,000 people.”
Reacting to the news, conservatives took to social media to express their disgust. Steve Ferguson, who operates a large pro-Trump account on X, said, “DOGE and Elon have found 100,000 federal workers collecting unemployment insurance while still working. When are the arrests starting?” Responding to his post, another conservative influencer said, “This is fraud! Arrests have to happen!”
Upset by the alleged fraud, one commenter noticed this behavior was typical among entitled government employees. His reply noted, “Govt workers are rapidly earning a reputation more despised than members of Congress, corp media, used car salesmen or lawyers. When they do get fired, will any company be willing to suffer the risk of hiring them?”
Many users were angered by the graft, such as one who said, “I wonder how this possible. The workers should have to give retributions and be fired for being untrustworthy, possibly jail too. But we need to fix the system so this can’t continue.” Chiming in, another said, “Totally agree — this is fraud, plain and simple. If there’s no accountability, it sends the message that corruption is just business as usual. Arrests need to happen, and soon.”
Adding personal insight, one respondent explained how this type of corruption is unheard of in the private sector. They explained, “omg.. I had deleted the necessary documentation of when my employment actually ended.. who knew the big company would lie about it. had to pay back a months worth.. they better have to pay every cent back as well.”
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Rounding out the comments, many conservatives called for the alleged fraudsters to face harsh sentences. One such comment said, “There definitely should have been a few follow up questions. I want to know if they were all in the same department. What years was this? I’m beginning to think I should get into the private prison business and open a few new ones.” Building on this point, another user said, “We ought to run out of prisons… round them up, get all ill gotten money/assets and ship them to some of the territories or Greenland when we purchase it. Remote Alaska would work too.”
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