Stephen Miller's Wife Angrily Ordered Social Security Boss to Go Along With Musk's BS
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Stephen Miller’s Wife Angrily Ordered Social Security Boss to Go Along With Musk’s BS
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Katie Miler wanted the Social Security Administration to keep falsely claiming that 40 percent of all calls to the agency were fraudulent.
Ewan Palmer
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Published Jun. 16 2025 10:58AM EDT
Stephen Miller’s wife berated the head of the Social Security Administration to promote a false claim about rampant fraud on the agency’s customer service line that was being pushed by Elon Musk.
Katie Miller, a former White House aide who later joined Musk’s team full time, called then-acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek and bluntly told him to keep repeating that 40 percent of calls to the SSA were from scammers and fraudsters even though the claim had zero basis in fact.
“The number is 40 percent,” Miller told Dudek during an April 1 phone call, according to The New York Times. She insisted that Dudek stick to the figure, despite SSA staff writing a response to correct it, because Donald Trump believed Musk. “Do not contradict the president,” she said.
Stephen and Katie Miller appear during the military parade making the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.
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The Times cited the false SSA scammer stat as yet another example of how Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pushed misleading claims and fabricated data to justify its cost-cutting crusade.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-millers-wife-katie-miller-angrily-ordered-social-security-boss-to-go-along-with-musks-bs/
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Don't forget, Eloon wanted to shut down customer service via phone at the SSA altogether, to supposedly save money. A false claim that most of the calls are fraudulent would have provided a handy justification, IF he could have gotten it to stick.
I think that the phone call claim was also part of trying to convince Americans that the entire SSA and other federal agencies were riddled with fraud, to justify all the firings, etc. Eloon evidently thought he could just send his doge puppies into the SSA and other federal agencies, claim fraud (without providing any verifiable evidence), and be instantly hailed as a hero! And he still doesn't understand why his "brilliant" plans backfired on him! 
