At a charged get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, Elon Musk pulled no punches as he unveiled a striking chart that quickly became the centerpiece of political chatter on Monday. What it showed, according to Musk, was a surge in Social Security numbers issued to noncitizens under the Biden administration—millions of them, in fact.
The rally, timed just a day-and-a-half before polls opened in a critical state judicial race, wasn’t merely a voter engagement event. It was a showcase of numbers, names, and, according to Musk and his allies, long-overdue questions.
The Sunday town hall exploded into headlines when Musk distributed two $1 million checks to local voters who signed a petition aimed at halting what the petition described as “activist judges.” This happened just after Wisconsin’s Supreme Court declined to intervene against the legality of the cash giveaway, which had sparked legal scrutiny ahead of the judicial election.
Then came the chart. Projected behind Musk and his longtime associate Antonio Gracias—also a key figure in DOGE, the tech-based watchdog initiative targeting inefficiencies in federal systems—was a graphic titled: New Non-Citizen Social Security Numbers Issued. Gracias walked the audience through it, detailing how DOGE’s team initially set out to identify fraud in the Social Security system but stumbled on this data instead.
According to Gracias, the chart showed a marked year-over-year increase beginning in fiscal year 2021, peaking with over 2 million noncitizens issued Social Security numbers by FY 2024. FY23 and FY25 (the latter still ongoing) each recorded about a million. The implication, laid bare without much subtlety, was that the Biden-era policies—or oversight—had allowed significant growth in access to key benefits for individuals not legally entitled to them.
Holy. Shit.
Antonio Gracias has been helping DOGE at Social Security and found that millions of the illegal immigrants let in by the Biden administration are on taxpayer-funded benefits programs.
They were set up to collect MAX payouts.
He also found that many voted in 2024. pic.twitter.com/PogYl7XbmQ— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) March 31, 2025
But that wasn’t all. Musk went on to allege that DOGE’s investigations uncovered approximately 20 million deceased individuals still listed as alive in SSA records, and that seven million accounts had recently been purged due to individuals being over 120 years old. Whether a symptom of outdated databases or something more nefarious, the figures added fuel to an already smoldering fire.
The broader context is key here: shortly after Donald Trump took office, he issued an executive order directing all public assistance be restricted to U.S. citizens. While that directive was largely symbolic in certain agencies, new initiatives appear to be gaining traction again under renewed conservative leadership.
One such effort was quietly launched last week, when the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Homeland Security announced a joint initiative to tighten inter-agency data sharing—aimed squarely at preventing noncitizens from accessing public housing benefits.
The Wisconsin event was as much about rallying voters as it was about drawing national attention to what Musk and his allies argue is a systemic failure to safeguard taxpayer resources. The numbers, if verified and contextualized, raise serious questions about entitlement security and eligibility enforcement under the current administration. Whether this was a political stunt, a data-driven exposé, or both—one thing is clear: Musk’s rally didn’t just hand out checks. It handed out controversy.
