Some people got money from the government, but they should not have. This was wrong.

People had different ideas about the tweet. Some people did not believe it, and some people liked it. The person who wrote it said it was very strange. He read it many times because it was hard to believe.

He said that the numbers were very bad.

But Chavez-DeRemer can see this problem in her department.

They say the government is not good and not smart, and they find problems the government did not see.

A law in 1935 said people can get money when they lose their job. States help with this money.

States usually help people without jobs. But sometimes the government in Washington gives extra money. This happened during COVID. It changed how the help worked.

Normal times: Some state systems for jobless people work good, some okay, some bad. With COVID and many jobless people, many systems were very bad.

In 2020, Trump started a program to help people who lost jobs. But bad people used the program to steal money. They used fake names to get the money.

The paper said states can help people whose name someone used to get money. They can make a fake record to show the theft, but keep the person's name safe.

Some people got money who were too old or too young. This was strange.

The memo says many claims were not for old people. They were fake.

A woman from the government did not answer questions.

DOGE looked at more time. It found $382 million in fake claims. This is a small part of all the money.

In 2022, the government said people took a lot of money for not working. They said it was more than $45 billion. Later, another group said it was even more money, maybe $100 billion to $135 billion.

Amy says many people know this. It was in the news a lot. People talked about it in meetings.

DOGE said this before. They talked about money for people who were dead or very old. This was not true.

So DOGE is not good to tell bad things, like when people lie to get money because they don't have a job.

Jessica Reidl writes about government money. She thinks the government spends too much. She thinks some people get money from the government unfairly. But she does not believe DOGE because she thinks they work badly.

When DOGE says very old dead people get money from the government, I don't believe him. DOGE is often wrong about this.

Traub said some people got money they should not have during the time of the virus. Because of this, states made new rules to stop it. She asked why Musk's team talked about old problems like they were new.

"Bosses and money experts say the country might have less work, so people think about jobs," says Traub. "This is bad for a big help program and maybe tries to make people not like help for no work, but this help is very important now."