WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that 275,000 illegal immigrants have been purged from the Social Security rolls on his watch.
“To protect our benefits, we’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system,” Trump said in the Oval Office with Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano looking on.
Bisignano, the former COO of JP Morgan Chase and ex-CEO of financial technology giant Fiserv, did not comment on the president’s claim, which Trump appeared to read off a prepared list of agency accomplishments to mark the 90th anniversary of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law . 3
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The Social Security Administration confirmed in a statement that it “updated the Social Security records of about 27