President Trump said Tuesday that his administration’s cost-cutting measures won’t affect entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.

“Social Security won’t be touched other than fraud or something. Medicare, Medicaid won’t be touched. We won’t have to,” Mr. Trump said in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.

Democrats in recent weeks have stoked fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s focus on the Social Security Administration will lead to cuts.

Mr. Musk has claimed the agency is infested with widespread fraud, prompting its top official to quit over data access and Democrats raise fears that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk will slash Americans’ benefits.

Earlier this month, Rep. Sarah McBride, Delaware Democrat, told CNN that “Americans cannot take them at their word when they say Social Security and Medicare are protected.”

Mr. Musk has countered that his team is only looking for fraud, waste and abuse. He declared on X that the Social Security Administration may have the “biggest fraud in history.”

It’s unclear whether Mr. Musk and DOGE will make any changes at the Social Security Administration and he has not proposed any wide-scale funding and personnel cuts. The DOGE changes at other agencies so far have been much broader in scope.

• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.