Notable win

Cleaning up Social Security's records

Breitbart reports, citing a Social Security Administration release dated Oct. 20, that the agency added about 17 million death dates and updated about 25 million citizenship records.

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Why you should care

Clean records mean fewer payments to people who have died and fewer errors in the files of people who are alive. I have not been able to open the agency's release, so read the numbers as the agency's claims as Breitbart reports them.

The long version of this story is still being written. Everything on this page is backed by the sources below.

Sources and footnotes

  1. Breitbart: Social Security corrects records in largest cleanup in 91 years (Oct. 20, 2026)