President Donald Trump said Thursday that approximately 275,000 illegal immigrants have been purged from the Social Security database, as well as tens of thousands more beneficiaries over the age of 160 who were still receiving checks.
Trump spoke at the Oval Office to mark the 90th anniversary since the taxpayer-funded safety net for seniors was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The event aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 online streaming platform.
“We’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system,” Trump said. “Many of them have already left the country, and yet we were sending them checks all the time.”
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