What does Musk’s chart show? The chart showed the number of new noncitizens who received Social Security numbers between fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2025 through a legal process known as "Enumeration ...

People who are ineligible to receive Social Security numbers, such as people illegally in the U.S. who do not have work authorizations, are issued an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number by ...

As he signed executive orders Feb. 18, President Donald Trump nodded to Musk’s data, saying that "if you take all of those millions of people off Social Security, all of a sudden, we have a very ...

He said, without presenting evidence, that the 5.5 million people represented in the chart received Social Security numbers after illegally crossing the border, applying for asylum and receiving a ...