At his town hall event in Estero, Florida, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) dealt with a very angry crowd after a question was asked about DOGE's access to Social Security files.
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00:00Do you approve Elon and Doge invading our Social Security files?
00:30Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready for the other half of it?
00:56The previous President, President Biden.
01:01So you don't really hear the full story.
01:06You don't really hear the full story.
01:09Allow me to educate and bring you the full story.
01:14And when you're ready, I'm going to tell you because I don't want you to yell and not hear the full story.
01:18Because if you're not listening, you're not.
01:21You're ready. I'm going to tell you the first story.
01:23Hear the first story.
01:24The previous administration, Joe Biden.
01:27He authorized 53 students to have access to the same database during his administration.
01:3453.
01:35He authorized 53 students to have access to the Social Security database.
01:41And I didn't hear anybody being upset when Joe Biden authorized that.
01:45So I'm not going to be upset when it's that or it's Elon Musk.
01:49That is not true.
01:50Again, if you're going to, if you're going to have a conversation about policy, then let me answer the question.
01:58Can't take a half of anybody to answer the question.
02:01Donald Trump authorized Elon Musk to have access.
02:05I agree with that.
02:07Do you know who else agrees with it?
02:09Joe Biden.
02:10Because Joe Biden gave someone access to 53 students during his administration.
02:19Do you want, alright, this is my question for the audience.
02:23Do you want to yell or do you want to hear?
02:26Because if you want to hear, I'm trying to give you information.
02:29I told you, I'm going to be factual.
02:32But you can yell or you can hear.
02:34The truth is, Joe Biden gave similar access to the same database during his administration.
02:41Who's doing this?
02:44So it's okay then?
02:45But it's not okay now.
02:47I'm not kidding.
02:49Go, go, go, go.
02:50Everybody go out.
02:51Or the people who are upset with Elon Musk, was it okay?
02:55When 53 students had the same access to the social security database.
03:00Was it okay then?
03:02But he did not.
03:06I got a better question.
03:08Is it okay to know that we have more than 300 people who are over the age of 100 who are still active in the social security database?
03:18Is that okay?
03:19Is that okay?
03:20Is that okay?
03:21Is that okay?
03:22Is that okay?
03:23Is that okay?
03:24Is that okay?
03:25Is that okay?
03:26Is that okay if we have people who are defrauding social security, and we won't do the necessary checks to make sure that the people who are against the social security checks, seniors who paid into the program, are actually getting the dollars that they deserve, free from foreign-based corruption?
03:33Is that okay?
03:34Is that okay?
03:35Because I think that's okay.
03:36If you don't think that's okay, then now you're paying politics.
03:38who are against the Social Security checks, seniors who paid for the program, are actually
03:42getting the dollars that they deserve, for one of those in corruption.
03:46Is that okay?
03:48Because I think that's okay.
03:50I think that's okay.
03:52And if you don't think that's okay, then now you're paying politics.
03:56You're not being factual.
04:01No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
04:05If you, if you do not, if you do not believe, if you do not believe, if you do not believe
04:12that it is okay, and you think it is fine, for people to defraud Social Security, you
04:17are not going to do it.
04:19What the thing is doing is they are examining the records.
04:23They are providing their findings.
04:25Congress has to weigh in on those findings.
04:27That's the way the process works.
04:29If you're not upset because Donald Trump has Elon Musk doing it,
04:33that doesn't make any sense.
04:35We have to make sense.
04:37We have to agree on certain things.
04:40You don't understand the people who believe it's access.
04:44All right.
04:46What did you do?
04:48I don't know.
04:49It's all right.
04:50Sir.
04:51I understand the confusion, but what?
04:54Sir, sir.
04:56Relax.
04:57Relax.
04:58Relax.
04:59Relax.
05:00Sir.
05:01The question was asked, and I made my statement.
05:04Are you asking?
05:05I made my statement.
05:06It is not okay.
05:07Hold on, hold on, hold on.
05:08That was it.
05:09That was it.
05:10That was it.
05:11It is not okay.
05:12It is not okay.
05:13It is not okay to know that there is fraudulent activity in the Social Security Administration
05:17and do nothing.
05:18That is not okay.
05:19That is not okay.
05:20It's not okay.
05:21We have a responsibility to pass it without it.
05:22And we are going to take that responsibility.
05:23It is also, let's be intellectually honest.
05:24It is also not, it is intellectually dishonest to be upset with Elon Musk, but not be upset with
05:26the 50 million students who have similar access to the Biden administration.
05:47And if you want to do this, he is going to ask them to just...
05:50My God, my name is Joseph X.
05:52My God, it is a great information.
05:53My God, it is a great information.
05:54My God, it's a great information.
05:55My God, it's a great information.
05:56Here.
05:57Alright.
05:58Let's go.
05:59There we go.
06:00I will pull.
06:01By the way, here we are.
06:04Is anybody...
06:06Is anybody finding this informative?
06:08No.
06:09Yeah.
06:10So it's scary.
06:11No.
06:12Let's go.
06:14Let's go.