Just listened to Musk on the Joe Rogan podcast. From Musks own mouth they only find discrepancies and hand them to the head of the appropriate department and they decide how to handle it. Cancelled aid programs get a chance to show that they are a legit organization and that the aid is being used for what it is allowed for and they do not get cut off. Musk said that there aren't any people collecting social security that are listed as being over 115 or whatever but what the social security thing is are people that are using ssn's that are still active in the system in order to claim other money such as disability and other gov hand outs. He did talk about the office that handles all government payments and the issues around payments that have no classification assigned to them so there is no way to trace some of it as well as programs and payments that were set up at some point in the past by some admin or dept head that is no longer around and were forgotten about but still being paid out as in you forget about that gym membership that automatically withdraw from your account every moneth even though you haven't been there in six years.