'Way, way off': CNN fact checker points to Trump lie that 'stuck out the most' in speech

CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checked president Donald Trump's congressional address, but he said one lie in particular stuck out. The president gloated over the changes he's implemented during his first 43 days in office in a historically long, nearly 100-minute address, and Dale walked through some of the false or misleading claims Trump made during his speech, but he told host Kate Bolduan the lie that "stuck out the most" to him was his claim that Elon Musk had found rampant fraud in the Social Security system. "So the president is at least strongly suggesting that millions of obviously dead people, you know, 200-year-olds, 300-year-olds, are receiving Social Security benefits. Now, I'll give you some specifics: In 2023, the inspector general who oversees the Social Security Administration looked into this, found that about 19 million people didn't have their deaths marked in the database even though they were 100 years old or over – so not good, an issue that has to be fixed. It shows that about 89,000 people age 99 or older, not millions, were receiving Social Security benefits as of December 2024, so these numbers in the millions are just way, way off."