“My opinion is that this is the tip of the iceberg,” says Antonio Gracias.
A member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in an interview this week that the task force had found illegal immigrants who voted in US elections.
“We found out we actually voted (illegal immigrants) … We’ve already been arrested three times in Florida and one indicted,” Doge’s official Antonio Gracias, the investor worth around $2.2 billion and founded Valor Equity Partners, said on the podcast “All-in.”
Earlier this year, Gracias was tapped by Doge and tech billionaire Elon Musk to look at Social Security records and other government data, Musk said at an event last month. Musk is currently an advisor to President Donald Trump, and although his time in the government is limited by his position as a special government employee, he was the de facto head of Doge.
“Yes, this is actually true,” Gracius said on May 21, responding to a question about whether Doge discovered illegal immigrants registered to vote in US elections. He cited Doge’s efforts in sampling “a few states” and their voters rolled, noting that those records are cross-referenced with the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative department.
Doge discovered that illegal immigrants were “registered to vote” and that those “people actually voted,” Gracias said.
Gracias said those people were able to register because they were given Social Security numbers.
“My opinion is that this is the tip of the iceberg,” he said, referring to their findings regarding voter fraud. “I don’t know the size of the iceberg.”
Trump established Doge in January to eradicate fraud, waste and abuse within the federal government. The task force has a deadline to complete work by July 4, 2026, but the mask said this month that it could remain within the entire president’s second term.
The task force has issued recommendations from its agents, but court orders block access to data and records from several federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration and the Treasury Department. Earlier in May, the Trump administration filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking Doge to allow access to the Social Security system after a US district judge stopped the organization from doing so earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Doge said in an April post on social media platform X that the social security record of around 11 million people for people over 120 has been described as a “major cleanup” effort.
In March, Trump signed an executive order to overhaul the way the US elections were held, including demanding evidence of citizenship to register for federal election votes. The order prompted lawsuits from many groups, and a federal judge in April blocked some of his orders.
The order said in recent years the Justice Department “failed to prioritize and devote sufficient resources to enforce these provisions” or “actively prevented the state from removing foreigners from voter lists.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
