President Donald Trump said on Friday that 300,000 illegal immigrants were kicked off Social Security and another 100,000 off Medicare by his administration.
Trump disclosed the numbers during an event at The Villages, a large community in Florida made up of retirees, to promote the White House’s policy of no tax on Social Security benefits.
“Together with the Republicans in Congress, we’ve removed nearly 300,000 illegal aliens from the Social Security rolls,” Trump said. “And, we’ve removed more than 100,000 migrants from Medicare eligibility. One hundred thousand, and the number is going up.”
“What we’re really doing is saving Social Security, because it was so rife with fraud, and the Democrats didn’t care,” said the president. “They couldn’t care less. All they care about is Trump. Trump derangement syndrome.”
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Trump’s appearance at The Villages was his first major public outing since the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting last weekend.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz attended the event with Trump, as did media personality Dr. Phil and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), whose gubernatorial campaign Trump has endorsed.
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